New Release Review – “F1”

Following the success of Top Gun: Maverick, the world’s dads began to wonder if maybe they might next be gifted a similarly belated sequel to that other high octane Tom Cruise vehicle, Days of Thunder. Ironically, Maverick‘s director Joseph Kosinski has probably scuppered any chance of that happening, as his racing drama F1 is exactly the movie you imagine a Days of Thunder follow-up would be.

Kosinski and screenwriter Ehren Kruger borrow the Maverick template of a grizzled veteran being called in to mentor a volatile rookie. Brad Pitt takes the Cruise role of Sonny Hayes, a driver whose Formula One career ended just as it was beginning when he suffered a near fatal crash in the early ’90s. In the…