Solid biopic

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2020)

Overall, this is a well produced and well acted biopic. The historic story of how Ford was motivated to take on the 24-hour endurance racing circuit is very interesting, especially given how Ford came from nowhere to not just enter the circuit, but almost immediately dominate it for the four years they competed.
Those details of how Carol Shelby and his chief driver Ken Miles teamed up to produce an historic pairing is well told, with one glaring exception. There is a decided effort to portray the Ford executives as clueless and entirely lacking in human attachment. Worse, most of those scenes are entirely contrived, and plain wrong.
There is one very nice scene of Henry Ford II speaking with Shelby about how it wasn't the first time that Ford went to war in Europe. The rest of the portrayals of Team Ford takes on a predictably negative and entirely stereotypical formula.
Apart from that, the interactions of the rest of the cast is both interesting and faithful to the truth. Ken Miles was robbed of an historic first of sweeping the big three of the endurance races in a single year, and this film shows how that went down.
The end scene between Shelby and Miles' son was especially poignant and worthy of the film. Add in highly effective editing and musical score that achieved a high degree of synergistic power in portraying the "perfect lap," and that alone makes this film highly worth watching.