Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, Sarah Niles, Will Merrick, Joseph Balderrama, Abdul Salis, Callie Cooke, Samson Kayo, Simon Kunz. Screenplay: Joseph Kosinski, Ehren Kruger. Cinematography: Claudio Miranda. Production design: Ben Munro, Mark Tildesley. Film editing: Stephen Mirrione. Music: Hans Zimmer.
Joseph Kosinski's entertaining but unoriginal F1 was one of this year's surprise nominees for the best picture Oscar. Nobody actually gives it much of a chance of winning, and there was much comment on the fact that it took that place of Jafar Panahi's much-praised It Was Just an Accident. As a racing movie, it has the usual plot clichés: rival drivers, big crashes, behind-the-scenes villainy, an inevitable love affair. You might call it a case of déjà vroom.
