A great story with distracting picture quality and cliché racing scenes

Rating: 6/10 (16 October 2013)

I love formula one racing and the story is a classic. From the very beginning I was distracted by the soft focus, shadowy dark video, and very narrow depth of field. At first I thought Ron Howard was going for a 70s video feel; like a newsreel from back in the day. But it got tiring and distracted from the story. Then I watched a recent Indy car race on TV and was swept away by the much better camera work and amazing wreck footage. It's sad to say that I can get better and higher quality camera work from my TV on a Sunday afternoon than I can by paying to see the latest Ron Howard movie. Come on Ron I know you can do better than that.