F1 Is a Big, Stupid Hit

Released under the dignified tagline of “sports drama,” Apple’s F1 is, at best, a camp classic in the making. Only Mystery Science Theater 3000 could do sardonic justice to this torrent of macho movie clichés patched together by an old hack producer, Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun) — who never lost money underestimating the intelligence of the general public — and younger hack director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick).