A blockbuster for summer. It is this Wednesday, June 25 that was launched on the screens F1, the movieBrad Pitt -centered feature film at the place of an old motor racing glory. A Hollywood star, a stage between action and suspense … and mixed criticisms.
There was much to expect from this new film by the American Joseph Kosinski, who signed one of the great 2022 boxes with Top Gun: Maverickwhose income has exceeded one billion dollars. Tom Cruise found the role of Maverick, a combat pilot he had played in a first role in 1986.
On paper, F1, the movie It is made in the same model: an American sex symbol embodies a prodigy sitting behind a steering wheel, led to assume a new challenge that faces it with the new generation. Because Sonny Hayes, the character camping by Brad Pitt, returns to formula 1 thirty years after a serious accident, and is collaborating with a young raw diamond in the discipline. But unlike Top Gun 2This entertainment full of testosterone is not unanimous on the side of criticism.
“A cartoon of the success story sewn with white thread, with Brad Pitt in self -promotion,” sighs in particular télérama, depliating a “heartbreaking” scenario.
Intrigue “family”
It is the script that concentrates most of the negative criticisms: “Without surprise” for Les Echos, “Faménica” ‘according to Oueest France, “old” according to 20 minutes.
In the same note, liberation is hatuous in the face of this “script writing epilepsy”, but also refers to a “first grade” virilism, as if the 2025 clichés could be the same as twenty years ago, or that a return to the order of things had to calm the ardor awake Hollywood. “
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Le Monde offers a similar analysis: “At a time when the studies, in the shadow of Trump’s second mandate, put their back policy awakeThis famous film with the fanfare of the return of the old white man to the lovely virility. “
For many, it is precisely this charm that carries F1: “If we forgive many things to this movie, it is also thanks to (Brad Pitt),” he acknowledges first, when Paris Match describes a movie “All To (His) Glory”.
Other more indulgent criticisms, such as Filmsactat, greet a “total sensory immersion”: “We literally live the breed”, he rejoices the site when describing “an XXL entertainment, which assumes its general audience while imposing a real visual leg.”
Franceinfo is particularly enthusiastic: “Excellent distribution, protagonists with endearing personal stories, impressive car racing plans in action, emotion and adrenaline are the perfect ingredients to make F1, the movie (…) Summer box office success. “
Source: BFM TV
