Brad Pitt Puts the Pedal to The Metal – ryan

F1: The Movie Starts, ominously Enough, with the Black Warner Bros Logo, which suggests it’s going the be The Dark Knight Rises of sports Movies. But althouough it really really relaxes on the fun, ’60s-style Paul Newman Picture It Might Have Been, F1 disgust itsel too Seriously. You might Go to it with solemn images in mind of the Old-School Maverick Driver Classics- Grand Prix (1966) and Let mans (1971) – which is a vibe Director Joseph Kosinski DOES PRIZE HIGHLY AND A ROLLS THAT BRAD PITT QUITE SNUGLY. But there is an amiable surrogate-family movie just vooming to get out, and the strange thing is that the recent release it more strongly resembles, down to its weird, squishy logo, is the last Mission: ImpossibleSINCE, Although It ‘Definitely About the American Way of Winning, The Emphasis is As Much on High-Tech Teamwork As it is on Traditional Star Wattage.

There’s a significant overlap with Once upon a time‘S Cliff Booth in Sonny Hayes, The Driver Pitt Plays. Unlike the recent M: i Movie, His Age is mentioned – and mentioned a tearNever in an Admiring Way. In fact, we start the movie at the 24 hours of daytona breed, an endurans that is clearly doing for the Money. His backstory involves a terrible crash at the Spanish Grand Prix in His 30s that Still Gives Him Nightmares (and Explains the film Cryptic opening, in whit Calming ocean are interpolar with video images of a high-wing breed). Sonny, We Learn, Is the Couldabeen That Never Was, His Rock ‘N’ Roll Bona Fides Confirmed Wenzski Drops Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ onto the Soundtrack, Making great use of it atonal midsection.

Everything is laid out here, from sonny’s Contempt for autoritity to his his capacity for superstition. He gambling; Before every breed he pockets a playing card (sight unseen); And wenever he wins, he refuses to handle the Cup (“It”s Bad Luck,” he Believes). But like the gangster who’s out of the game, his past comes calling a face from the past Shows up while he doing his laundry. Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) is an Old Adversary Who Now Runs Apxgp and Is $ 350 Million in the Hole. “I Need a New Driver,” He Says, Flashing an Old Magazine Cover Touting Their Young Selves as the Rising Stars of F1. Sonny Says No, But Cervantes Won’t Hear it. “WHAT WOULD h want you to do? ” Asks Cervantes, Pointing to Sonny’s Younger, Blonder Self. He shrugs.

Inevitably, Sonny Does Join The Team, Led by Star Driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), Who Greets Sonny with Horror and Prompts a Lot of Talk About Whether An Oldie Has An F1 Race (that will be luigi fagiol France). Their sparring goes exactly the way you think it Might, and Pearce Soon Begins to SEE and Appreciate the Long-Gestating Method in Sonny’s Madness (there’s a lot of talc and hot tire, and the Judicious Timing of Pit Stops). Butn, Sonny wins over the which team too, from Company Board Director Peter Banning (Tobias Menzies) to Team Manager Kaspar Molinski (The Great Kim Bodnia) and, Most Crucily, Apxgp Heart.

The full, sucolves Sonny’s unorthodox Attempts to get apxgp back on track, and although you know what the will will will be in the end, there’s a lot of Enjoyable, self-deprecating batons that you’ld probably never. Unfortunately, Sonny’s HIINKS DON’T Exactly Chime with the Way Formula One is Heading (to BorroW Donald Trump’s Famous Phrase on Encountering a Tesla for the first time, “Everything’s Computer!”). As a result, the film seams to toggle between a nostalgia for the traditional iconography of the lone at the wheel (Sonny’s mantra is “Put your head down and drive”) and a Respect for the technicians, through aerodynamic design and Such, snatch all-imper fraction Seconds when racing at over 200 mph.

Inevitably, F1 Does somewhat sidestep criticisms of the formula one community, but it does land some pushen we can, in terms of organization’s vice-like grip and the absurd proliferation of branding (cosinski’s has both ways, with the placement for expensify and Tommy Hilfiger. It probably also romanticizes the sports away from Male Skew, LeaveNing Condon’s Role As The Sole Female (FROM Pearce’s Overly Protective Mum), Who ALSO Serves as the Film’s sort of Age-APPROPRIATE LOVE INTEREST.

Where it will place in the summer-movie stakes, howver, is hard to predict, gioven the fate of recent races such as James Mangold’s Ford V Ferrari (A Hit) and Michael Mann’s Ferrari (Very Much Not a Hit). Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy Too, Although Technical Noms Will Be Its Strongest Play. But or not it finds it audiences (and there are probably a lot of Easter Eggs for Viewers Who Know A HELL OF A LOT MORE ABOUT Formula One i Do) F1 is proof that brand pitt is still a vaable option and, like tom cruise, can still hold a movie the ld-fashioated way, Putting pedal to the metal.

Title: F1: The Movie
Distributor: Warner Bros
Release Date: June 27, 2025
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger
Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Javier Bardem, Kim Bodnia, Shea Whigam
Rating: PG-13
TIME RUNNING: 2 HR 35 MINS