From a story by director Joseph Kosinski and Ehren Kruger (who also wrote screenplay), Hans Zimmer scores his second F1-based film after Rush (2013).
Brad Pitt - Sonny Hayes
Damson Idris - Joshua Pearce
Kerry Condon - Kate McKenna
Javier Bardem - Ruben Cervantes
Tobias Menzies - Peter Banning
Kim Bodnia - Kaspar Smolinski
Sarah Niles - Bernadette Pearce
Summary
Film is set in 2023.
Sonny Hayes (who suffered a horror crash at the Spanish GP in 1993), is coaxed out of retirement by old friend and former teammate Ruben Cervantes to save his fictional Team APXGP from collapse.
After travelling from Orlando to London, racing legend clashes with the cocky and extremely talented Joshua Pearce.
Can they dump enough hormones and lead team to glory?
Hope is not a strategy
The similarities with Days of Thunder (Top Gun with fighter jets) comes as no surprise, as this is Zimmer's 13th collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer.
Despite being 30 minutes too long, enjoyable ride wasn't The Color of Money clone I expected.
It is and isn't 'master vs. apprentice'.
Pitt's performance is cooler than one of his ice baths and bounces off Idris like the paddles in a pinball machine.
Racing sequences ooze energy and span the world, including Zandvoort (Holland), Suzuka (Japan), Autodromo (Mexico) and Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium).
Exhilarating climax in Abu Dhabi may contain every narrative cliché in the book, but brims with drama and excitement.
Oh, swans are assholes.
Just saying.
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