Joseph Kosinski,director of “Top Gun: Maverick,” and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are hoping for similar success with their new film,”F1,” which arrives in cinemas next Friday.

The film stars Brad Pitt as a former Formula One star who returns to mentor a young driver (Damson Idris) and revive a struggling team. The high-octane drama shifts from fighter jets to the world of Formula One racing.

Based on 82 reviews, “F1” currently holds an 88% rating on Metacritic gives it a score of 70/100, indicating “generally favorable reviews.”

Critical Reception

“There’s a fair bit of macho silliness here, but the panache with which director Joseph Kosinski puts it together is very entertaining.”

– Peter Bradshaw,The Guardian

Early reviews suggest a classic blockbuster formula,delivering strong action sequences but relying on familiar plot points and tropes. Here’s a glimpse of what critics are saying:

Tim Grierson of Screen writes, “Top Gun: maverick director Joseph Kosinski does for cars what he previously did for fighter jets, transforming them into balletic machines that fly through the frame with unstoppable propulsion.”

Rolling Stone’s David Fear notes, “This what blockbusters used to look like. Come for the most impressive, lustrous car that a gajillion-dollar budget can buy. The reason to stay, however, is the driver.”

Liz Shannon Miller from Consequence observes, “While Tom Cruise did already his big race car movie back in 1990, it’s easy to imagine him watching F1 and seething with jealousy. Because the racing sequences look like they were as thrilling to shoot as they are to watch.”

In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw says, “There’s a fair bit of macho silliness here, but the panache with which director Joseph Kosinski puts it together is very entertaining.Condon is a vital fuel ingredient and to a F1 non-believer like me, the result is surreal and breathtaking.”

Variety’s Owen Gleiberman states, “We go into “F1″ excited about being excited, and the film makes good on that. It’s nothing if not an adrenaline high. Yet it’s a high that may leave you feeling a bit empty afterwards.”

Indiewire’s David Ehrlich writes, “Always entertaining for how effectively it welds hyper-modern spectacle to the chassis of a classic underdog story… but in working so hard to satisfy newbies and experts simultaneously occurring that it frequently enough struggles to seize on its simplest pleasures.”

Nick Schager of The Daily Beast calls it “an old-school Jerry Bruckheimer-produced spectacular, albeit one that never deviates from a familiar summer blockbuster course and, consequently, fails to truly kick into adrenalized overdrive.”

The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey opines, “While director Joseph Kosinski and cinematographer Claudio Miranda can certainly shoot cars as well as they can planes, F1 represents the spiritually bone-dry, abrasive inverse to all of maverick’s giddy pleasures.”

Nicholas Barber, writing for BBC, says, “While Top Gun: Maverick was a masterpiece that pulled viewers into events in and out of the cockpit, F1 is simply a competently assembled collection of underdog sports-drama clichés.It never convinces you that its protagonists are human beings.”

And William Bibbiani of The Wrap concludes, “An incredibly sterile film about virility. It’s so manly it can barely perform.”

“F1” features a cast including Oscar winner javier Bardem, oscar nominee Kerry Condon, Emmy winner Tobias Menzies, Emmy nominee Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia, and Samson Kayo. The film is set to premiere in cinemas on june 27th.