If America did F1

Rating: 4/10 (20 September 2015)

You can tell this film was originally meant for F1; they want the exotic locations (Japan, Germany, etc), glitz and glamour, while keeping the down to earth appeal of American open top racing. It could have been a decent racing film if it had been more about the whole races, and less about just the main characters. Instead, it feels more like a real life version of Pixars Cars. There are plenty of crashes through out the film, but - apart for the main characters - they just seem to be excuses for pretty CGI; there seems to be no reactions from the cast or crowd when it happens. One car spins and another goes air borne over it, is just a throwaway piece. Cars smash and disintegrate without much impact on the race. For a film about the camaraderie of racers, it seems lacking in drivers; it's more a back drop for the boxing style machismo of the named actors. It's Sylvester Stallones film; he's the old racer, come back to mentor the young upstarts. They do dumb, hot head things and he tries to rein them in. I'm so glad they made Rush.