A great film all the way down to it's core

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2020)

SYNOPSIS:
The true story based on the Le Mans race in 1966 following former Le Mans winner Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) striving to make Ford a serious contender to Ferrari. However, problems arise when his driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) may not have the image Ford wants.
REVIEW:
James Mangold does here what very few Directors can do and that's make me interested in something I have no interest in. Everything this film was screamed "YOU WILL HATE THIS MOVIE, JOHN!" I've never been one to care about cars, or racing and definitely not films focused on that, but wow this film was executed damn near perfectly. Mansgold creates an intriguing conflict and dialogue. To no surprise we also get superb acting from Matt Damon and Christian Bale. Then you have an amazing supporting cast with the likes of Noah Jupe, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas and Tracy Letts. Josh Lucas played the perfect "douche bag who thinks he's too good for everyone and everything" and has a very punchable face which made the ending to this film relatively bitter-sweet (if you've seen this film you know what I mean). I was so afraid of this film being what every film with cars is and that's "turn left, then turn right, then turn left, reverse and do a 180, turn left again" and I can't even begin to explain how much that irks me, but this film is beautifully paced and is edited so well that I was actually on the edge of my seat waiting to see what the outcome would be.
CONCLUSION:
What I tell everyone is that this is the "Green Book" of 2019. Obviously, very different subject matter, however, the very well made, emotional, warm, sad, happy and crowd pleasing type of film worthy of an Oscar nomination. So, regardless if you're a fan of cars or racing I recommend this to everyone. 8.7/10.