Brad Pitt’s much-anticipated new movie F1 has been lauded as ‘epic’ and an ‘old school summer blockbuster’ in early reactions ahead of its June 27 release. 

In the sports drama the Oscar winner, 61, plays aging race car driver Sonny Hayes as he joins a failing team and returns to the track alongside rookie and rival Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). 

While the full reviews aren’t in quite yet, social media reactions from several critics across the country have started flooding in on X.

Many praised Brad and co-star Damson’s onscreen chemistry, as well the movie’s overall look thanks to director Joseph Kosinski, whose last worked on Top Gun: Maverick. 

With some even branding F1 the ‘Top Gun for racing fans’ – three years after the Tom Cruise aviator movie made an eye-popping $1.496 billion worldwide.

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Brad Pitt ‘s much-anticipated new movie F1 has been lauded as ‘epic’ and an ‘old school summer blockbuster’ in early reactions (Brad, right, pictured with co-star Damson Idris) 

In the sports drama the Oscar winner, 61, plays aging race car driver Sonny Hayes who joins a failing team and returns to the track alongside rookie and rival Joshua Pearce (Damson)

One critic even branded F1 the ‘Top Gun for racing fans’ – three years after the Tom Cruise aviator movie made an eye-popping $1.496 billion worldwide

iOne Digital’s Bernard Smalls said: ‘Buckle up #F1TheMovie is an high octane thrill ride. It’s one of those films that you go to the movies for. Brad Pitt and Damson Idris are both dynamic. This is top gun for F1 racing fans. Truly a racing movie for a new generation’.

While Rotten Tomatoes’ Erik David wrote: ‘Joseph Kosinski’s #F1TheMovie hits the gas and doesn’t stop. The races are epic, the sound design, editing, cinematography, performances and music are all top notch’. 

He added: ‘You definitely feel shades of TOP GUN MAVERICK in that it plays like an old school summer blockbuster. What a ride’.

The Wrap’s Drew Taylor said: ‘#F1TheMovie is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the coolest, most entertaining movies you’ll probably ever see, but none of that sizzle takes away from its soul. Kosinski precision engineered an eye-popping, edge of your seat pop epic that makes you feel so much. I adored it’.

Elsewhere IndieWire’s Mike Ryan joked: ‘I just saw F1 and apparently it’s about race cars and not about a small tornado. But good gosh that was a lot of fun’. 

Variety’s Jazz Tancay commented: ‘WOW! is an action-packed thrilling look at the world of F1 racing, with lots of grit. The sound, score and cinematography are flawless. Damson Idris and Brad Pitt are great! Absolutely Obsesseddd’.

While The Breakroom’s Maude Garrett said:  ‘#F1TheMovie is so freaking good. It has all the adrenaline, heart, pacing, story and character that completely fleshes out this movie into excellence. I can only imagine how much MORE I would love this movie if I was a fan of F1 racing! Maybe I am now?’.

The movie, which boasts Tommy Hilfiger as it’s lifestyle sponsor and Lewis Hamilton as producer, was filmed at various F1 races around the globe for the past few years.

While the full reviews aren’t in quite yet, social media reactions from several critics across the country have started flooding in on X.

 

Many praised Brad and co-star Damson’s onscreen chemistry, as well the movie’s overall look thanks to director Joseph Kosinski, whose last worked on Top Gun: Maverick

With some even branding F1 the ‘Top Gun for racing fans’ – three years after the Tom Cruise aviator movie made an eye-popping $1.496 billion worldwide. 

iOne Digital’s Bernard Smalls said: ‘Buckle up #F1TheMovie is an high octane thrill ride. It’s one of those films that you go to the movies for. Brad Pitt and Damson Idris are both dynamic’

Critics were full of praise for the high octane movie 

In the trailer Brad’s character boasts an atтιтude and an addiction to gambling with a need for speed on the track.

But Javier Bardem wants him to be the best in the world and asks him to team with a young talented driver who lacks experience.

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There is also romance. Brad is seen pᴀssionately kissing his screen mate, 42-year-old Irish actress Kerry Condon.

Fans went wild for the trailer as they took to the F1 Instagram page to share that the clip gave them ‘chills’ and was ‘awesome’ as one added: ‘Let’s race!’

It comes after Brad finally broke his silence on his ugly eight-year Angelina Jolie divorce battle that ended in December after she filed in 2016.

The actorwas not venting, however, and instead seemed to try and downplay the legal boxing match that’s made headlines for almost a decade.

His comments were made in the June issue of GQ magazine as he promoted F1. 

He said finally seeing the end of their battle was not ‘major.’

‘No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing,’ Pitt said. ‘Just something coming to fruition. Legally.’

In the trailer Brad’c character boasts an atтιтude and an addiction to gambling with a need for speed on the track 

While The Breakroom’s Maude Garrett said: ‘#F1TheMovie is so freaking good. It has all the adrenaline, heart, that completely fleshes out this movie into excellence’

Variety’s Jazz Tancay commented: ‘WOW! is an action-packed thrilling look at the world of F1 racing, with lots of grit

The Wrap’s Drew Taylor said: ‘#F1TheMovie is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the coolest, most entertaining movies you’ll probably ever see’

Elsewhere IndieWire’s Mike Ryan joked: ‘I just saw F1 and apparently it’s about race cars and not about a small tornado. But good gosh that was a lot of fun’

Brad and Angelina , who share six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, Knox, 16, and Vivienne, also 16 — married in 2014 after meeting on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith.

He did acknowledge his love life is ‘always in the news.’

‘It’s been in the news for 30 years, bro. Or some version of my personal life, let’s put it that way,’ he told GQ.   

He now lives at his Los Angeles home with his 32-year-old girlfriend, jewelry executive Ines de Ramon. 

GQ writer Daniel Riley also asked if he made his red carpet debut with Ines at the 2024 British Grand Prix to drum up publicly for F1.

‘No, dude, it’s not that calculated,’ Pitt  laugh. 

‘If you’re living, oh my God, how exhausting would that be? If you’re living with making those kinds of calculations? No, life just evolves. Relationships evolve.’

It comes after Brad finally broke his silence on his ugly eight-year Angelina Jolie divorce battle that ended in December after she filed in 2016 (pictured together 2011) 

Jolie in 2021 with five of her six children: from left, Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox

When the GQ writer asked if making F1 was ‘a refuge from all the attention’ he said, ‘Um, I don’t see it that way.’

‘It’s been an annoyance I’ve had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do,’ he said of fame. 

‘So, it’s always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that, I don’t know. I don’t know. 

‘Mostly I feel pretty…. My life is fairly contained,’ added the ex-husband of Jennifer Aniston. 

‘It feels pretty warm and secure with my friends, with my loves, with my fam, with my knowledge of who I am, that, you know, it’s like this fly buzzing around a little bit.’ 

He also told GQ that the movie made him happy to be a Hollywood actor.

‘Man, I’ve been doing this for a while and was wondering: Do I have more stories to tell? Do I have anything to add to this? Is there still any excitement I can find from this? It just reinvigorated the whole thing again for me.’

F1 is released in cinemas June 27 .