Maverick' helmer's feature, which counts Lewis Hamilton as a producer and features Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon, is about the late-career return of a once promising Formula 1 driver.

There's a certain kind of summer movie that's so revved and ready to go, so fuel-injected with flash and talent and star power, not to mention an irresistible subject, that before the movie is barely under way you can feel yourself getting excited about being excited.

The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s “F1,” a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing sc