Director: Joseph Kosinski

Cast: Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem

Synopsis:

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

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“Sorta predictable but yowza entertaining” was the phrase that kept rattling around my refined movie critic head watching F1: The Movie, which seems poised to be the summer’s chief blockbuster and not only because it boasts a who’s who cast and crew that have made lots of movies you’ve definitely heard of.

Arriving with buy-in from the sport’s overlords at the FIA and co-produced and overseen by real-life F1 champ Lewis Hamilton — who is namechecked in a crucial racing scene and who appears, not really discernibly, in the film alongside all 10 Formula One teams and their drivers from the 2023 season — F1: The Movie aims to satisfy all comers.

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