The Joseph Kosinski-directed movie, starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, speeds into theaters June 27. Following the New York premiere of F1: The Movie on Monday evening, the first reviews of the film from critics have been coming in, and they’ve been generally favorable.

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 scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor.

Consequently, F1: The Movie is an empty spectacle. You can appreciate the craft on display in the driving sequences, but it's hard to be fully invested when you don't care about the characters in them. The thrills are on screen, yet rarely translate to the audience.

F1: The Movie follows the sports movie playbook almost perfectly. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt as an aging never-was racecar driver giving it one last shot with an old friends racing team and his cocky young driver with plenty of lessons left to learn,