Perhaps about the best thing you can say about "F1" is that it's something of a guilty pleasure and like a lot of guilty pleasures it's undeniably entertaining. What it isn't is one of the ten best pictures of the year (Oscar, take note). It's another highly cliched and formulaic movie about an old-timer, (Brad Pitt, he's over sixty now), and a young hotshot. (Damson Idris, showing real promise), teaming up together to win, in this case to win in Formula One. Cue in a lot of fairly exciting racing sequences which should keep the motor-racing aficionados happy and some off-track romantic shenanigans with Ireland's Kerry Condon and naturally it's edited to within an inch of its life. Highly professional, this is the kind of movie on which no expense was spared save that of the script but like a lot of junk food, once in awhile, it can prove to be pretty tasty.
