Joel Woods

I REALLY looked forward to this movie! Enzo, Ferrari cars, and produced by Micheal Mann......... a potential trifecta! I am an extreme car guy and I love a good car movie. The look and sound of a Micheal Mann show (Miami Vice, Thief, Heat, etc) coupled with the story and cars of Ferrari, this SHOULD be epic. The good: Seeing the featured classic cars and some of the background cars (see above) was excellent. Surprisingly, they weren't on screen that often or for very long. Otherwise, the scenery and backgrounds were well done. The bad (at times to the point of embarrassment!) The very first car driving started off reasonably well with good driving footage UNTIL the first crash. The driver starts to loose it and they cut to a scene of the car and the driver 15 feet in the air. Guess what, they used the same basic scene (car and driver 15' in the air) later in the movie. What?? There were two other crashes when cars ended up in nearly identical grassy fields. Really?? Look, crashes in those days were BAD, even little ones. I am NOT looking to see them protrayed in some sort of grotesque manner, absolutely not. These four crash scenes were (in part) boarderline comical with the flying cars and grassy fields. Cars did not even fly that far out of Talladega back in the Armco days and the grassy field offs only made me think somebody didn't want to wreck an expensive replica. I couldn't wait to get out of the theatre so I didn't see if Barbie was the Technical Director on the movie..... Miscellaneous dumb stuff; all the street and race cars were abnormally clean, I believe you see more of the inside of their bank than the factory, at one point Enzo says something about the driver should have the top up in the rain (it was an open cockpit car!). If you are looking for a drama and you know little or nothing about Ferrari this movie is okay. If you want to see a racing movie watch Le Mans, Grand Prix, and Ford v Ferrari. Otherwise I'd rate this hugely disappointing racing movie below all of them, even Day's of Thunder. At least that movie had a classic build planning scene with Robert Duvall.