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Just like in Top Gun: Maverick the director Joseph Kosinski was close to making us feel like we were flying in one of those fighter planes, now the same director F1: the film manages to overcome and -almost- We experienced sitting behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car.

This aspect of experiencing the adrenaline that the elite Formula 1 drivers get when driving at speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour, even from the cinema seat, is one of the film’s many successes Brad Pitt And Javier Bardem.

Because it’s not just about sitting on the roof of a car, it’s also about creating a surprise when using DRS (Resistance reduction systemor Drag Reduction System) on the straights of every race track. In F1: the film There is a plot that endures, and would endure even without the four cameras in the cockpit of the car driven by Brad Pitt.

The one from F1 It is a story of second chances, but also of first chances to achieve something. There is Sonny Hayes, Pitt’s character, a former Formula 1 driver who was a promising young man and had to give up his dream of being “the best in the world” after a terrible accident while competing with Schumacher or Senna.

And now luck is knocking on his door again, in the hand of Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), a colleague from back then, now at the head of an F1 team, Apex, who is about to lose everything if he doesn’t get the checkered flag and falls first after all the others after one of his drivers.

Sonny lives in a van and earns bonuses by, for example, competing in a team of several people at the 24 Hours of Daytona. He is brave, he is not afraid of anything and if he agrees, he will join a team that is at the bottom of the grid in all starts.

Yes, like Alpine, where Colapinto is on.

And in Apex, Sonny will be the second driver behind the rookie, rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), who is largely what Sonny was more than three decades ago: “arrogant, cocky and with a lot to learn,” as Cervantes tells him.

That’s what we said F1 It’s a film about second chances. For Sonny, perhaps for Cervantes, certainly for director Kosinski, albeit with Top Gun: Maverick Things were going great for him. But with the new camera installed in the car, there is a qualitative leap in the quality of what you feel when looking at the images.

Kosinski confronts Sonny about JP, as Sonny calls him, due to the young man’s individualism, which contrasts with everything Sonny does to help the team get better positions in every race. Smart, somewhat devious and playing on the edge of the legal, he is the real strategist of the team, more than the sports director and engineer played by Kerry Condon, who is somewhat blurred in this matter and highlighted by being the first woman in such a high position in Formula 1.

Obviously the protagonist is Pitt’s character. The guy who wears a different colored stocking, who, before getting into the car, takes off his watch, looks at the photo with his father, takes a poker card and, without looking at it, puts it in the pocket of his fireproof suit. The man who says he loves running but doesn’t do it for the money, that he has nothing to lose and as such will give everything – even what he no longer seems to have – so that the people around him can succeed.

The driver who is hit by an Alpine at one of the many real race tracks – Silverstone Grand Prix, Budapest, Monza, Netherlands, Suzuka, Mexico, Belgium, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi – where the film was filmed.

What almost ends up running down his face? A drop of sweat or a tear running from your right eye?

It’s true that Sonny could have been played by Tom Cruise, but perhaps his car wouldn’t have reached the end of filming unscathed. But Brad Pitt is great in a film with music from Led Zeppelin to Ed Sheeran that lasts more than two and a half hours but, heh, goes by very quickly.

Action/Drama. United States, 2025. 155′, ATP L. From: Joseph Kosinski. With: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Damson Idris. Available in: Apple TV+.