Ford vs Ferrari

A critic/ review of this movie.
Yesterday Larry and I had lunch and then went to the local IMAX theater to see the new release of the film Ford vs Ferrari. The movie was released yesterday Nov. 15, 2019. The lead actors are Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as Ken Miles. Carroll Shelby is well known as the founder and maker of the iconic Cobra sports car. Ken Miles is less known and that is a shame in my mind.
The movie has taken a very liberal take on the facts of the real story about the events leading up to the 1966 24 hours of LeMans race.
The story seems to center around on Carroll Shelby hiring this broken-down mechanic/ race driver to develop the Ford GT 40. The facts are that Ken Miles was apart of Shelby American just about from the start. Ken did most of the development of the Cobra, the Daytona coupe and the installation of the 427 Ford into the Cobra and of course the Ford GT 40. Ken Miles had a long history of building and developing various races cars and racing them very successfully before being hired by Shelby.

The above photo is of Ken Miles actual car as raced At Miller Motorsports park and was owned by Larry Miller.
The racing footage isn’t bad, not very accurate as to how it is on the racetrack. The good part of the race scenes is the shots of some of the other period race cars. The one cliché that I did not practically like was the overuse of the closeup shot of Ken Miles foot mashing down on the accelerator pedal and suddenly blasting past another car that he is racing past. Come on it is not like Dan Gurney in his Corvette is only using part throttle and Ken Miles just presses harder to make the pass. Get frigging real.

The story has almost everything, race action, romantic love interest, the bad guy (in this case it is Leo Beebe of Ford).
Do I recommend this movie? I give it three stars out of five. Am I going to see it again? Yes, but then I want to see some of the details that I may have missed the first time.