You know that Oscar season is upon us when you start seeing more and more biopics hitting the big screen. Like every year we discover personal touching stories we might have never been exposed to if not for some Hollywood Studio decided to make it into a movie and immortalize it.
Ford v Ferrari is the true-life story of the visionary car designer, Carroll Shelby, and the fearless mechanic and driver bud, Ken Miles, who together decide to defy the laws of physics by taking a Ford Motors car and enhancing it to become a revolutionary race car that would for the first time threaten Enzo Ferrari’s dominance at the race tracks when they win the 24 Hour Le Mans race in 1966.
So you might ask, how does this story for devoted petrolheads or maybe car historians become a mainstream movie? The answer is very simple… its the magic of the performances of Academy Award winners, Matt Damon and Christian Bale, and director James Mangold, who takes the story out of its realm of a car racing genre and redefines it into a can’t miss flick that is entertaining for young and old alike.
Ford v Ferrari is made the way traditional Hollywood films were made, a crowd-pleasing storytelling tale with soul and smarts that clicks on all the right cylinders even though it has a two-and-a-half-hours run-time. And whether you are a motorsports fan or not, it is hard not to fall for the moving depiction of this male bonding story that is so wonderfully depicted by Damon and Bale. I really liked this movie and give it a very deserving Thumbs Up!