Standard Hollywood biopic.

Rating: 7/10 (16 February 2020)

After watching the Best Picture winner, "Parasite" in the afternoon, I went back to the theater later that evening to watch this film. My expectations were not so high, and I honestly felt a little fatigued from being awed by the South Korean masterpiece I saw earlier in the day. After watching this film, I felt like I just ate a little too much pizza--it was good but it maybe too long. The story is fairly standard and somewhat uplifting, the performances were pretty good (refreshing to see Christian Bale in a British accent), and the visuals were good. However, I felt the climatic race and ending to be anti-climatic. Maybe it's because I'm not really familiar with racing, I kind of expected something more exhilarating like the Podrace sequence from Star Wars episode 1. Now the last moments of the race and the results were fun to watch-personally the film could've ended there. Now the ending, without spoiling too much felt too obligatory and could've just been cut. Sometimes events could merely be mentioned or even be written in the end credits, that's what the ending in this film was like. Overall, good film but not worth a repeated viewing.