Film Review - F1 (2025)

F1 is the new movie by Joseph Kosinski who directed Top Gun Maverick and stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes a once promising Formula 1 champion who is recruited by his old friend Rueben (Javier Bardem) to his struggling F1 team APX GP as well as help a promising new recruit (Damson Idris)

F1 is a lot of fun on a big cinema screen and will go down well with a crowd and first the racing sequences are fantastic, granted their not as good as the flight sequences in Top Gun Maverick but that’s a high bar and this movie does a good enough job with its scenes to deliver the goods, there were multiple times where I was invested in the racing and the outcome of the race.

And also the cast is very good here, Brad Pitt is a lot of fun as Sonny the champion that could’ve been given one more chance to prove his worth, Bardem is memorable as well in the “scruffy yelling boss of the team” role while Damson Idris is good as well in the young rookie role and I also enjoyed seeing Kerry Condon from the Banshees of Inisherin as the fecking technical instructor trying to prove her worth.

But this movie is also too long, at just over 2 and a half hours it definitely feels it especially in the second half of the movie, granted it is not the “my bottom’s falling asleep” bad that Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning was but its not overly better than it either, if 20 minutes or so had been shaved off of the runtime I would’ve liked it more than I do and I like it very much.

And so that was F1 and it is a lot of fun and knows its lane and what it wants to be and drives in it fast and well, worth a watch on the big cinema screen, 3 and a half out of 5.