What? no reviews of "Ferrari" as yet? I'll go, saw this past weekend. No spoilers here as it's all history already. Good, not great. AD's acting was good though not that believable as Enzo, an admittedly challenging character. I may be biased by the Enzo years that I've lived to see when he would've made a good Godfather character. Well-played by AD but on occasion allowing some brooding Kylo Ren to show through. Good combined use of driving and CGI. Significantly graphic but probably still less so than the time was in reality. I found it difficult at times to know what the film was going for: was it about Enzo, was it the company, was it about Laura/Lina/Piero/Enzo quadrangle and the ghost of Dino, was it about de Portago and the Mille? Highlighted them all but I didn't get an a+b+c=d moment.
Other observations: enjoyed seeing the cars but clearly most were Bonham's queens with 15 layers of hand-rubbed lacquer when originally were disposable racing tools with just enough paint to cover the metal. Usual Hollywood racing conventions of probably more wheel to wheel action and excessive shifting than there actually was, but they had to make it interesting to non-nerds. I don't know about anyone else but I'm tired of seeing McDreamy in a race car, real or imagined. I get it, you're a racer, still never be as cool as McQueen or Newman.
To digress, though, what I could not help thinking of throughout the film, and clearly showing my bias, is when the heck are we going to get a definitive treatise on "Chapman?" Has anything other than a few mentions in DMC documentaries and minis been produced? It would really take a miniseries of some significance to cover it all and would have all the story anyone would want: formative years with Colin and Hazel (a much more endearing character, I predict, than Laura Ferrari, though well-played by Ms Cruz. Ms Cruz played her desperate and devious enough that she probably would have made a better Enzo), early wins, real David and Goliath stuff with genius to go along with it, the Jim and Graham years, Indy, Emmo and Jochen, Mario and Ronnie, stunning and revolutionary road cars, constant money woes, enough tragedy to go around for anyone interested to say nothing of the end of the genius (sure, more DMC references) and subsequent survival of the company (thanks MJK!). Perhaps when the Peaky Blinders crew get done working on the next season of Rogue Heroes ("Paddy Mayne" does have a bit here too), they can get right on that! Overdue.