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An old-timer with something to prove, a young upstart with talent but without experience, a sprinkling of love interest. All of them fighting a seemingly losing battle. You already know how the story will end, don't you? Yes, you're right! The racing sequences are well shot, but everything else is awful. Pitt plays the same shallow one-dimensional character he has played with success in many other films. Some real drivers and team principals probably had fun shooting their cameo appearances. They had more fun than I did. This is a really bad film. I'm not sure who it would appeal to. If you like everything that Brad Pitt does, and you have no idea what F1 is, you might find this disjointed mess entertaining.

I know I'm probably in the minority that didn't get 'Ted Lasso'. I tried, but despite the efforts of Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham and Brendan Hunt, it was let down by awful scripts and the fact that no-one apart from the aforementioned could act. 'Shrinking' is a clever, witty and charming show, both thoughtful and thought-provoking, that was immeasurably diminished by the awful wooden 'acting' of Goldstein. Now you're probably wondering why I tuned in to Goldstein's stand up show. He must be good at something, right? Wrong. His stand up is about as funny as lung cancer, but what do I know, people pay to watch this bilge.

This film is a series of well acted and usually beautifully photographed scenes which, when added together, amount to almost two hours of precisely nothing.

There is not a bad performance in the whole thing. Everyone is doing their best. I commend them all for their efforts because it must have been as obvious to them as it will be to anyone that watches it that this film is a waste of time.

Clichés have been shamelessly borrowed from a number of moderately good films and mixed together in the hope that something better will emerge. The characters are bland nonentities that occasionally say something witty, but are otherwise forgettable. I can see that it might be possible to feel sympathy for some of them, but any thoughts of rooting for them are swamped by the overwhelming hope that the end of this tedious, bloated nonsense of a film is not too far away.

I have to confess that this is not a review of the whole film because I fell asleep for about 15 minutes somewhere after the half way point. I did wake up in time to see the big action climax and the resolution of the story. Being awake while this movie is showing is not recommended.