F1 (2025) [+]
Dec 17 2025
F1 the Movie is a racing action film that spans the course of a Formula 1 season.
After winning 24 Hours of Daytona, veteran race car driver Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is recruited to be the lead driver of APXGP, a struggling F1 race team that half way through its second season has always finished near the bottom. Minority owner and Hayes friend Rubén Cervantes (Javier Bardem) needs the team to do better or it will be sold off.
Hayes has been in F1 before when he was a young hotshot driver but a horrific crash retired him from that sport though he continued to do all sort of other races. In addition to that checkered past Hayes also has to deal with his fellow driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) -- a lot of potential but more concerned with looking good and his endorsement contracts. And the last main character is engineer Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon) who designs the cars and is a potential romantic interest.
So far a typical setup that works well just because of Brad Pitt. But the racing scenes are quite exciting. We see how much tech is behind the scenes in design, training, and during the race. The story covers 11 races and it seems like most get some coverage. Each race as has a bit of story and character development -- Hayes showing his recklessness side and his crafty side as he's quite willing to stretch the car's performance to stay competitive and to arrange for slight accidents to slow down the pace so his team can stay in the game or catch up.
There's a rivalry between Hayes and Pearce. Hayes has a no non-sense train hard, work hard, concentrate on the racing, exclude everything else which eventually gets the rest of the APXGP team behind him and brings around Pearce. Hayes and McKenna's thing is mostly tension and flirting and a culmination then a poignant goodbye because for Hayes this is a one season mercenary-type of contract and he's moving on to something different.
But the racing is the best and shot in a way that makes F1 exciting (I've seen F1 when I was younger and it always seemed more boring than NASCAR or Indy). So now I'm looking forward to watching F1 on Apple TV.
Overall a really exciting film.
After winning 24 Hours of Daytona, veteran race car driver Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is recruited to be the lead driver of APXGP, a struggling F1 race team that half way through its second season has always finished near the bottom. Minority owner and Hayes friend Rubén Cervantes (Javier Bardem) needs the team to do better or it will be sold off.
Hayes has been in F1 before when he was a young hotshot driver but a horrific crash retired him from that sport though he continued to do all sort of other races. In addition to that checkered past Hayes also has to deal with his fellow driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) -- a lot of potential but more concerned with looking good and his endorsement contracts. And the last main character is engineer Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon) who designs the cars and is a potential romantic interest.
So far a typical setup that works well just because of Brad Pitt. But the racing scenes are quite exciting. We see how much tech is behind the scenes in design, training, and during the race. The story covers 11 races and it seems like most get some coverage. Each race as has a bit of story and character development -- Hayes showing his recklessness side and his crafty side as he's quite willing to stretch the car's performance to stay competitive and to arrange for slight accidents to slow down the pace so his team can stay in the game or catch up.
There's a rivalry between Hayes and Pearce. Hayes has a no non-sense train hard, work hard, concentrate on the racing, exclude everything else which eventually gets the rest of the APXGP team behind him and brings around Pearce. Hayes and McKenna's thing is mostly tension and flirting and a culmination then a poignant goodbye because for Hayes this is a one season mercenary-type of contract and he's moving on to something different.
But the racing is the best and shot in a way that makes F1 exciting (I've seen F1 when I was younger and it always seemed more boring than NASCAR or Indy). So now I'm looking forward to watching F1 on Apple TV.
Overall a really exciting film.