Ford v Ferrari

— I’m not a racing fanatic, but I still enjoyed this film. Luckily, I’m also not an auto mechanic or racing historian since there’s evidently plenty of fiction to go with the facts in the telling of Ford going up against Ferrari and winning at Le Mans in 1966. Whatever’s true and not, the film’s a tad slow setting the stage but once it gets going, it moves along with about the right mix of racing footage, emotion, and conflict. It’s interesting to see the motivation attributed to Henry Ford II’s decision to throw as much money as it took toward the project, as well as the internal politics at Ford, all the while painting a more righteous picture of Carroll Shelby and his somewhat combative friend, driver Ken Miles. It ends up more a look at the character of the men involved in the battle than of the event itself…and that’s a good thing, particularly when two very competent actors are playing Shelby (Matt Damon) and Miles (Christian Bale).

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[2019. 152 min. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, and Josh Lucas.]
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ford-v-ferrari-movie-review-2019