Movie Review: Ford v Ferrari, directed by James Mangold
(Five Stars)
“Look out there. Out there is the perfect lap. You see it?” “I think so.” “Most people can’t.”
An amazing movie. I went to be entertained; I was moved to tears. Not about cars or racing—okay, peripherally so—but about people. People who want to excel, and people who want to control. They don’t get along in the movie, nor in real life.
“If you’re going to push a machine to its limit, you have to have sense of where that limit is.”
Amazing performances by Matt Damon and Christian Bale with solid support by half a dozen others, especially Caitriona Balfe. If there’s justice in Hollywood—we know there isn’t—this crew should garner several Academy Award nominations.
“This isn’t the first time Ford Motor’s gone to war. We know how to do more than push paper. Go ahead, Carroll. Go to war.”
While Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca are portrayed sympathetically, the rest of “suits” at Ford corporate come off as a bunch a sleazy power grabbers.
“You can’t make every lap perfect, but I can try.”