To my eyes this is peak Wachowski, with all that implies, positive and negative.
Wachowski movies pretty much always provide intense visual spectacle coupled to a plot that makes little to zero sense (oh spare me your nonsense about deep philosophy embedded in The Matrix!), and this movie dials both of those to 11.
The plot makes zero sense even within the framework of the movie! The drivers all believe the races are honest, and the parents all believe racing is mostly safe, even though every event looks like something out of Death Race 2000???
So just accept, going in, that the plot is nonsense and it's ALL about the visuals. Which has a few consequences, the most important of which is that this movie was made for a large OLED screen, and displayed in HDR. Do not try to watch it on anything less. It just will not be pleasant; you'll miss all the value of the movie. The stills show some of what to expect, but they and the previews on this site don't have the HDR that makes what you see truly astonishing, these insane ultra-oranges side by side with deep purple or eye-watering fuchsia.
And so, and I cannot stress this enough, the experience is like eating cotton candy - more than a small dose will make you violently ill! I watched it over four days, about half an hour a day, and I think that's about the right pace. Anything more than that and your brain and visual system will be permanently scarred.
Wachowski movies pretty much always provide intense visual spectacle coupled to a plot that makes little to zero sense (oh spare me your nonsense about deep philosophy embedded in The Matrix!), and this movie dials both of those to 11.
The plot makes zero sense even within the framework of the movie! The drivers all believe the races are honest, and the parents all believe racing is mostly safe, even though every event looks like something out of Death Race 2000???
So just accept, going in, that the plot is nonsense and it's ALL about the visuals. Which has a few consequences, the most important of which is that this movie was made for a large OLED screen, and displayed in HDR. Do not try to watch it on anything less. It just will not be pleasant; you'll miss all the value of the movie. The stills show some of what to expect, but they and the previews on this site don't have the HDR that makes what you see truly astonishing, these insane ultra-oranges side by side with deep purple or eye-watering fuchsia.
And so, and I cannot stress this enough, the experience is like eating cotton candy - more than a small dose will make you violently ill! I watched it over four days, about half an hour a day, and I think that's about the right pace. Anything more than that and your brain and visual system will be permanently scarred.