Michael Mann is an interesting filmmaker as Mann is great at capturing crime, thrillers, and drama stories with strong atmospheres, direction, dialogue, and action. While not every movie he has made was great, I expect Mann to provide some strong directing and interesting action and thrill moments. I didn't love Ferrari as I would have wanted to but I still found it to be interesting.
Throughout, the camerawork and the production design is pretty good as the production and setting helps to capture the time period and environment. Many of the wide shots, the car moments, or scenes where tension, action, and racing occurs are well-executed as Mann never disappoints on crafting action and thrill scenes. Most of the performances are solid. Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari was pretty good but Penélope Cruz provided the best performances as she had great emotions, personality and chemistry with her role. Including a good soundtrack.
The narrative explores more on the personal and professional struggles of Enzo Ferrari alongside with others around which is more slow-burn then action. The narrative is interesting as I enjoyed the concepts and themes the story explores. But at the same time I wished certain concepts could have been explored or handled differently. The characters, while slightly dull at times, were interesting in exploring the personal dynamics and personalities of each one's own. Some have criticized Driver's accent for being pretty bad but I personally didn't mind it since it wasn't on the level of House of Gucci awful.
The dialogue is pretty good but there were some clunky dialogue moments. Throughout, the movie had a good atmosphere, color presentation and sound design. There are some pretty bad uses of CGI effects. Despite some of the gripes, I was still invested to see where the movie was heading.
Overall, it's not Michael Mann's best movie but it was nice to see Michael Mann doing another project after his previous work in 2015.
Throughout, the camerawork and the production design is pretty good as the production and setting helps to capture the time period and environment. Many of the wide shots, the car moments, or scenes where tension, action, and racing occurs are well-executed as Mann never disappoints on crafting action and thrill scenes. Most of the performances are solid. Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari was pretty good but Penélope Cruz provided the best performances as she had great emotions, personality and chemistry with her role. Including a good soundtrack.
The narrative explores more on the personal and professional struggles of Enzo Ferrari alongside with others around which is more slow-burn then action. The narrative is interesting as I enjoyed the concepts and themes the story explores. But at the same time I wished certain concepts could have been explored or handled differently. The characters, while slightly dull at times, were interesting in exploring the personal dynamics and personalities of each one's own. Some have criticized Driver's accent for being pretty bad but I personally didn't mind it since it wasn't on the level of House of Gucci awful.
The dialogue is pretty good but there were some clunky dialogue moments. Throughout, the movie had a good atmosphere, color presentation and sound design. There are some pretty bad uses of CGI effects. Despite some of the gripes, I was still invested to see where the movie was heading.
Overall, it's not Michael Mann's best movie but it was nice to see Michael Mann doing another project after his previous work in 2015.