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Movie Review: Ferrari

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The entire world has always known how dangerous sports car racing is. Over the decades the race cars that were used have slowly turned from suicide death traps into cars that have protective roll bars, better tires, fire protection, and parts that break apart to absorb the violent forces of a collision away from the driver. Unfortunately for many years before these common-sense improvements in race car safety, many drivers have died horribly and many accidents also included the deaths of spectators. One would think that given the extreme danger of this sport, especially during the decades of the 1940s-1970s governments would have stepped in and prevented the high speeds or regulated the safety of the cars. The race cars used in this movie were stupidly designed and have absolutely no head protection for the driver. It is hard to believe that anyone would ever drive cars like these at such high speeds.

The new movie “Ferrari” is mostly about car racing, but is more about the personal life of Enzo Ferrari, played by Adam Driver, who was the founder of the Ferrari car company. Enzo was married to Laura Ferrari, played by Penélope Cruz, and throughout most of their relationship Enzo had a mistress Lina Lardi played by Shailene Woodley and they had a son together. Most of this story had too much to do with the soap opera-like arguments between Enzo and Laura due to his cheating and the fact that their company was close to bankruptcy – relying on one big race to save the company.

Despite all of the flaws, the acting is outstanding, especially with Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz, who both deserve Oscar nominations for their acting – making the too-average script that much more disappointing. From the trailers I have seen and the buzz about this film, I was expecting a better movie.

I was not surprised by the low 73% Rotten Tomatoes and 6.7 IMDB ratings for this movie due to the concentration of too much on the soap opera story and not enough about car racing from the 1950s.


Movie Review: 65

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The new movie “65” with Adam Driver is a very bad movie with a bad title. Nothing up front is explained, other than he has to leave his daughter for 2 years even though she has some undefined medical problem and heads into space for a mission that is never fully defined. How about why is he going to space, what is his mission, and what are they trying to accomplish?. His spaceship hits an asteroid and then the remaining crew dies in cryosleep. He winds up back on planet earth 65 million years ago right at the time Earth is about to be hit by a huge life-ending asteroid. How exactly did this happen? Did they fly through a black hole or something? Another minor detail never fully explained.

Adam Driver (who took the big payday and ran) plays an astronaut named Mills who runs into a young girl named Koa, played by Ariana Greenblatt and what follows is a series of scenes with various dinosaurs and two human beings running for their lives. Unfortunately- there is not much else here and almost no story. It is always a bad sign when any movie comes out early on Thursday, trying to get some box office, before the critics trash another obvious-bad movie.

I agree with the very low 36% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and recommend that nobody spends any money to see one of those “cookie-cutter-special-effects and no story waste of 2 hours.

Movie Review: House of Gucci

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While watching this too long 2 hour and 37 minute movie – I kept thinking about better titles other than “House of Gucci”. How about “House of Chain Smokers”, “House Full of Matches”, “How To Get Lung Cancer”. In all my years of going to the movies as a hobby, I have never seen more smoking in a film than this one. Not even close. Either a character was constantly smoking, or lighting up a cigarette, or grabbing for a cigarette – non stop in about 95% of every scene. My only explanation is that the producers realized that getting funding for this soap opera about the Gucci family was going to be difficult – mainly because the script was not any good. So, they lobbied every cigarette company in the world and begged them to send them money, promising non stop smoking in almost every scene in return. Smoking can kill you, in about 100 different ways, so why is the movie industry allowing this level of money over not promoting a huge human health hazard?

What is most hard to understand about this mostly bad movie is how they got Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, Jared Leto (unrecognizable in his role Paolo Gucci – with some pretty bad acting), Jeremy Irons and Adam Driver to agree to make this film, after they read the script? Then add the extremely respected Ridley Scott who directed this film. This story also commits the ultimate cardinal sin – its way too boring to keep anyone’s attention for any length of time. There are good signs that Lady Gaga can be a very good actress and some of her scenes with Adam Driver were good – but unfortunately the screenplay is just not good enough for anyone to care about the acting.

As far as I could tell, the only message within this story is that even if you are super rich and super lucky, you will still have problems. Just problems of a different proportion and different level of importance. One of the problems of being rich is that other people will be gunning for you – trying to your steal money in so many different ways. Being rich and famous can involve constantly looking over your shoulder to see who is coming around the corner.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for House of Gucci is a very low 61% for many reasons. I agree with this rating and do not recommend this film.