I really wanted to like it

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2019)

ALMOST everything about this movie was so good. The acting, the dialogue, the sound design, the cars! It also just looks so beautiful. Whatever is shown on screen matches with the tone at all times, and the colours are gorgeous throughout. The sound track was also really good, especially during the race, and the race scenese had clutching my palms the entire time.
The thing is, though, the story is just so weak! To me, the ending is just super depressing without reason. A tragic ending like that should feel deserved, but it didn't. If the movie ended with Miles losing first place, it would been a bittersweet ending, but I felt like they had to just shove his death in there. (Why is there a major plot point in the falling action?) I usually get so emotional during movies, but I literally felt nothing here.
They changed the story so much already, couldn't they have just changed it a lil' more to make narrative sense? I really wanted to like it because I'm such a big fan of the actors, but the more I thought about the story, the less sense it made to me.