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Frank Grillo discusses stepping into the shoes of Ferruccio Lamborghini himself in Bobby Moresco’s Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend.

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend is an exciting dive into the life and accomplishments of Ferruccio Lamborghini, the entrepreneur behind one of the best-known car brands of all time. Written and directed by Bobby Moresco, who wrote the screenplay for 2005's Crash , Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend handles both the surprising backstory of the Lamborghini brand and the troubled relationships in Ferruccio Lamborghini's life with agility and compassion. The film is grounded in truth, as well, as it is based on the book Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale , which was written by Ferruccio's son Tonino.

Although Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend was originally slated to feature Antonio Banderas in the starring role as Ferruccio Lamborghini, the actor dropped out and was replaced by Frank Grillo. Ultimately, however, it's difficult to see anyone else in the role as Grillo embodies Lamborghini in a natural and powerful way. While Grillo has found himself in front of huge audiences thanks to his work as Brock Rumlow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Avengers: Endgame , and What If...?, his work as Ferruccio Lamborghini is an exciting turn for the actor, which is especially impressive given that he joined the cast only shortly before filming began.

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Frank Grillo spoke with Screen Rant about his work on the film, Lamborghini family approval, and spending time in Italy.

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Screen Rant: Congratulations on the film. It's great. What made you want to be part of it? Are you a car guy?

Frank Grillo: I am a car guy, but mostly what made me want to do it is the opportunity to play an Italian icon. I'm Italian. I'm an Italian citizen, and to get the opportunity - which is maybe once in a lifetime for me, to get to go do this, [and] to have somebody believe that I could do it - was enough.

And what kind of research do you do for something like this? Is it more than you would do for a fictional character?

Frank Grillo: You know, normally, yeah, I probably would over-research it, and I would overthink it. And fortunately, I didn't have the luxury of that time. I only had about ten days before I got the job and had to go to Italy. So, I read the book that the movie is based on, and I spoke a lot to Bobby Moresco, the director and writer, who had a lot of information. And then I kind of cut it off, because I didn't want to start the wheels turning. I got to Italy, and we just kind of jumped into it with how I sounded, and what I looked like, and the beautiful suits. It was so much easier than I thought it was going to be for me, as far as the role is concerned. I fell into this so naturally and organically. I've had so much fun doing it.

Obviously, a lot of Lamborghini's family is still around. The movie does a really good job of talking about not only how driven he was, but how that drive affected his family life. How was it for you to play that, knowing his family was going to see it?

Frank Grillo: Yeah. By the way, Tonino, who wrote the book, he's a very smart, very powerful guy in Italy. Piercing blue eyes. He would stay on set, and so I would do a take, and somehow I'd find myself looking at him like, "Is he going to, like, throw rocks at me?" It was a bit intimidating at first, and then I had to let it go, because the interpretation of who I think he was, is that. Right? I couldn't make him happy. And yet, I just went to the Rome Film Festival, and I had a little bit of a conversation with him. He doesn't speak English, really. I had them ask, "Is he happy with it?" and he kissed me on both cheeks. So either that means he's going to kill me, or he was very happy with it.

Strong feelings, either way. And how much did you know about Ferruccio Lamborghini before this? Anything?

Frank Grillo: Nothing. People know about those other car makers, and the great thing about this story is, it needs to be told. It's a great story, but nobody knows it. A lot of people don't even realize Lamborghini was the name of a person. Do you know what I mean? So, I think that's a great time to have a movie come out.

Yeah. I was one of those people, so I appreciated it. And you were behind the wheel of some really beautiful cars in this. Were you able to drive them?

Frank Grillo: No, these cars weren't registered. These are real museum pieces; these are collector's items. We put them on a flatbed, and we did our thing. I want none of that responsibility in my life. Yeah, I've got enough problems.

Finally, you mentioned that you have Italian citizenship, but is there anything that you miss about just getting to be there, and shoot there, and spend that time?

Frank Grillo: I was just there for the Rome Film Festival, too, and I have to tell you, I'm seriously considering - as my kids are getting... one's getting out of high school next year, and then I got one left - I'm seriously considering splitting my time between Italy and the United States. That's how much I love it. I love being Italian. I love being Italian in Italy. For me, it fits my lifestyle better than then here. So yeah, I'm going back.

About Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend

Featuring Oscar® winners Mira Sorvino and the screenwriter of Crash, this thrilling, high-speed biopic tells the story of genius auto inventor Ferruccio Lamborghini (Frank Grillo, “Kingdom,” “Boss Level”). All his life Ferruccio has dreamed of beating his longtime rival Enzo Ferrari (Gabriel Byrne, “War of the Worlds”) — and the upcoming Geneva Grand Prix could be his chance to blow past Ferrari for good. But can Ferruccio get his untested vehicle prepped for victory with the competition just months away? The race is on!

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Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend will be released on digital platforms and in select theaters on November 18th.

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“The Man Behind the Legend” takes a backseat to gorgeous automobiles and breathtaking Italian vistas in this pamphlet of a biopic

The cars are the stars in “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend,” a pamphletized biopic that does the easy thing — beautifying Italy and vintage automobiles — but stalls with everything involving humans.

Starring Frank Grillo as the titular engineer and carmaker in middle age, writer-director Bobby Moresco’s admiring portrait is a gauzy, stuffy showroom piece that romanticizes everything from piazzas and vineyards to factory floors and car engines but never gets out of first gear in dramatizing a dreamer’s achievement or — when it came to upsetting the dominance of Ferrari in the auto world — a competitor’s drive.

The latter element is tritely illustrated by the recurring use of an imagined nighttime drag race in which Grillo, behind the wheel of his character’s famous ‘70s Countach design, squares off on a lonely road against Ferrari (Gabriel Byrne) in one of his ‘80s-era models. But no matter how many times Moresco returns to this invented showdown — one car edging past the other, but no, wait, now the other guy’s ahead, just like in the story! — it’s never thrilling or illuminating.

Then again, neither is the only dialogue scene between the two actors, in which we’re primed for a gauntlet-throwing exchange and instead get a listless taunt from our upstart hero about Ferrari’s inferior clutches, followed by the other guy’s brooding exit. This is a rivalry? (One would expect way more from the guy who won an Oscar for co-writing a movie made up entirely of butting-heads situations: “Crash.”)

Before that moment, however, it’s the pretty but flavorless early days in which young Ferruccio (Romano Reggiani), inspired by his mechanical training in World War II, defies his grape-growing farmer dad (Fortunato Cerlino) by going into tractor-building instead of tractor-operating. He partners with his best friend Matteo (Matteo Leoni) and gets support from his adoring wife Clelia (Hannah van der Westhuysen) but loses both — one to tragedy, the other to arrogance.

None of it is especially interesting, however, because Moresco’s dreary dialogue is forever stuck in the declarative (“I have an idea”) or lessons-learned banal (“Things go wrong, no matter your intentions”). It’s the great-man-of-history approach that time and time again has felled biopics; inherently intriguing conflict and character details get lost in a blueprint that prioritizes hitting timeline marks instead of believable human interaction. Here, scenes feel pigeonholed instantaneously by whether the characters are smiling or serious-looking.

When Grillo eventually appears — starting with the chapter prosaically titled “The Golden Years,” set in the early ‘60s — the problem becomes a whispery, pug-like performance that in no way flows from Reggiani’s blandly moody male-model version. With Mira Sorvino relegated to teary, forlorn looks and not much else as neglected second wife Annita, and a miscast Byrne phoning in his cameo as ideal and adversary, that leaves only hope that the creation of Lamborghini’s first iconic touring car, considered one of the most beautiful ever built, will generate excitement.

But again, it’s cardboard drama: Grillo in his hesitant accent demanding things be done faster and better, or drawing on a napkin, or swooning over a lovingly revealed bull-logo name plate design. That’s all well and good for a 30-second commercial about the Lamborghini brand but hardly the stuff that promises “The Man Behind the Legend.” It’s certainly not there in a pair of scenes with his grown son son Tonino (Lorenzo Vigano), one of which is overshadowed by a gorgeous, pristine Lamborghini motorboat.

The cinematography of Gianfilippo Corticelli and Blasco Guirato is serviceably elegant, helping a modest production that wisely takes advantage of Old World locations and era-specific clothing for ambience. It’s not a lived-in-looking period movie, but it’s a postcard-handsome one. The cars do their part, unless they’re in motion, at which point Moresco’s depiction of the thrill of speed — as necessary for these types of movies as anything else — leaves something to be desired.

Being careful not to mar the production’s most valuable props was maybe one consideration. It doesn’t, however, explain the lack of fuel injection with everything else in “Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend.”

“Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend” opens in US theaters and on-demand Nov. 18 via Lionsgate.

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In Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend , there's nothing under the hood

Despite a sturdy performance by frank grillo, bobby moresco’s biopic of the luxury car designer is all smooth surfaces and no actual muscle.

Usually, with a biopic, one immediately understands why a famous person’s life is worthy of a film. Either the person has held people’s imagination, or their story has become culturally significant. Sometimes a filmmaker finds an absorbing but lesser-known chapter in someone’s life that acts as a hook into a story. None of these things exist in Bobby Moresco’s Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend . We never understand why a movie about the Italian automobile designer and engineer was made. What part of his legacy or life inspired Moresco? This is anonymous filmmaking of the highest order—it could be about anyone. There’s no insight into Ferruccio Lamborghini or what made his pursuits special. It could also be directed by anyone—Moresco’s indistinct filmmaking is neither enthralling nor involving.

The film starts in the 1960s with middle-aged Lamborghini (played by Frank Grillo) engaged in a closed-circuit car race with Enzo Ferrari (Gabriel Byrne). Perhaps Moresco is setting up a rivalry between the two Italian automobile titans? But before we understand what’s going on, the film jumps back to the end of WWII, when a younger Lamborghini (played by Romano Reggiani) returned from battle to his father’s farm. He tries helping by building tractors, evidencing his interest in being a mechanic. A friendship and shared engineering passion develops with Matteo (Matteo Leoni), a fellow soldier. He falls in love with a beautiful woman, Celia (Hannah van der Westhuysen).

Bland as these early scenes are, they are not helped by the younger actors, who give leaden performances that make conversations about car engines and bank loans somehow sound even duller. Even when tragedy strikes, the film remains emotionally opaque. And then a stupid romantic rivalry is introduced to tell us that Lamborghini is—what? Selfish? Maniacally driven even at a cost to those closest to him? It’s unclear.

Things perk up a bit when Grillo takes over the part about halfway through. He brings charisma and a certain “je ne sais quoi” that makes him immensely watchable. Unfortunately, like the other actors, he’s stuck speaking English with an Italian accent, a misguided choice that makes most scenes laughable. Grillo doesn’t seem particularly invested in the accent, which comes and goes. So why not ditch it altogether? It’s not like the characters actually spoke English in their real lives.

The script never gives the audience any psychological insight into the characters. It just goes through Wikipedia highlights of Lamborghini’s life. During this section, Mira Sorvino appears as Annita, Lamborghini’s second wife. She’s saddled with a nothing part, forced to lurk on the sidelines and repeat what her husband says—either disbelievingly or disapprovingly. Well, until she unceremoniously disappears altogether.

Throughout all this, the film keeps cutting back to that opening race between Lamborghini and Ferrari. Yet no context is given—it’s never clear where this race takes place or why there’s no one but the two of them present. Is it a dream sequence? More egregiously, the rivalry that’s promised never materializes. Byrne appears in only three scenes, suggesting he might have signed on and then dropped out. Did the filmmakers not pay him so he quit after only filming a fraction of his scenes? These questions, which are completely outside of the story and the film, are what the audience is left contemplating. Nothing on screen makes sense—or is remotely as interesting as those possible answers.

Additionally, nothing is gleaned about what made Lamborghini’s cars so distinctive. The only insight comes from a title card in the closing credits. Shot in small rooms where only parts of a vehicle are shown, the scenes meant to explain their “legend” prove the most unremarkable, comprised of men huddling together and talking in the most general of terms. Races that look like they were shot on backroads are completely unconvincing and unexciting. Also unconvincing is the makeup when an injury happens. Everything is shoddy and unbelievable.

Fortunately, the film is only 97 minutes long. But even this grace note comes at a cost to the viewer. The end of the story comes out of nowhere, as if the filmmakers ran out of money and stopped shooting before they were really done. A peculiar film; Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend never gives the audience a reason for its existence.

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Featuring Oscar winners Mira Sorvino and the screenwriter of Crash, this thrilling, high-speed biopic tells the story of genius auto inventor Ferruccio Lamborghini (played by Frank Grillo, “Kingdom,” “Boss Level”). All his life Ferruccio has dreamed of beating his longtime rival Enzo Ferrari (played by Gabriel Byrne, “War of the Worlds”) — and the upcoming Geneva grand prix could be his chance to blow past Ferrari for good. But can Ferruccio get his untested vehicle prepped for victory with the competition just months away? The race is on!

Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend will be available in select theaters, on demand, and digital on November 18, 2022.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend’ on VOD, an Automotive Biopic Starring Grillo as Lambo

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This week in Why Bother With the Damn Accents Theater is Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (now available to rent or own on VOD services like Amazon Prime ), more affectionately known as GRILLO PLAYS LAMBO , since the famous Italian carmaker’s (probably famous Italian) shoes are filled by none other than ever-lovin’ action guy Frank Grillo. He replaced Antonio Banderas in the lead role, and Gabriel Byrne shows up for a few scenes as Enzo Ferrari, replacing Alec Baldwin. Part of the story is the kinda-rivalry between the rich car guys, and part of the story is how Lambo drove away all his loved ones, not in fast, sexy sports cars, but on the winds of his assholishness, which was fueled not by gasoline but his intense desire to create the most bee-yoo-tiful cars ever seen by man, god or beast. Now let’s see if this biopic sticks.

LAMBORGHINI: THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: GRAPES. Are they sour? Who knows! But they’re on a farm owned by Ferruccio Lamborghini (Grillo), who appears to be a lonely old man in a gigantic house. Now it’s nighttime, and he revs a succulent baby-blue Lamborghini Countach alongside Enzo Ferrari (Byrne) in one of his Ferrari whatevers. It’s red, like they always are, which makes the blue Lambo that much more delicioso . Screech, they take off, and then – CUT TO: the 1940s. World War II is over and young Ferruccio (Romano Reggiani) and fellow soldier buddy Matteo (Matteo Leoni) hop off the bus in their fatigues. Ferruccio immediately proposes to Clelia (Hannah van der Westhuysen) then heads home to his father (Fortunato Cerlino) the farmer. They’re picking cabbages when Ferruccio, a mechanic in the army, declares his desire to design tractors and build race cars. “You’re a farmer ,” his father replies. “You throw your life away.”

See, Ferruccio wants to be all-caps GREAT. Not just some guy farting around in the dirt with cabbages. So he and Matteo build a race car hoping to raise money and they lose, and then Ferruccio’s dad mortgages the farm so he can start a business, and then Ferruccio argues with Clelia, and then she’s pregnant, and then we get through several “and then”s before half the movie’s over and Grillo’s only been in the midnight-drag-race scenes we keep cutting back to. Will he ever pass Enzo in his f—ing Ferrari?

Anyway, young Ferruccio deals with a terrible tragedy and there’s sadness all around, sadness for everyone. Finally, it’s 1963, and at last there’s Grillo, so I’m going to call his character Lambo now. He’s married to Annita (oh hi, Mira Sorvino!), and his son is a teenager, and he’s made a fortune building efficient, affordable tractors and heating and cooling stuff. Units? Yeah, probably. Units. And everyone has terrible Italian accents, terrible Italian accents for everyone! They come, they go, they sometimes sound like Bronx accents, and Byrne, he doesn’t even seem to be really trying. He’s barely there at all, to be honest! We keep seeing him in his red car, outrunning Lambo’s blue car, and then Enzo meets Lambo, and he insults our protagonist, which really burns his ass. Burns it! And now Lambo will build the most bee-yoo-tiful car ever, and rub it in Ferrari’s face, even if it costs our guy his friends, his family, everything. You might say Lambo is (pause for dramatic effect) driven .

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Ford vs. Ferrari more than filled the need for movies with dialogue about four-barrel carb thingamajigs and flywheel pinvalves, for a few years at least. Otherwise, deposit Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend alongside Tucker: The Man and His Dream in the generically-titled-biopics-of-carmakers file.

Performance Worth Watching: I like Grillo. He’s fine as Lambo, even though he’s hamstrung by this screenplay. Go watch his rock-solid Netflix B-movies Point Blank and Wheelman to see him at his badass best.

Memorable Dialogue: Ferrari fuels Lambo’s fire: “Go back to your tractors, farmer.”

Sex and Skin: None, although some of y’all no doubt will be turned on by close-ups of a lovely yellow Miura.

Our Take: Lambo’s desire fuels the rivalry and the rivalry fuels the desire, so round and round it goes, like, I dunno, a round thing on a car, maybe the round thing that touches the road and there are four of the round things, and if you happen to be among his loved ones, you’ll get run over, and the round things will leave marks on you. Too bad Lamborghini never picks up much dramatic speed and remains stuck in neut- OK, enough of the hacky metaphors. No derisive comments about how the movie grinds its gears or blows a tire or snaps the key off in the ignition rendering it immobile. I’m done with that shit.

But what we have here is the answer you don’t want in reply to this question: Is the movie more interesting than the Wikipedia entry about the subject? The screenplay gracelessly hodgepodges from one moment to the next – Lambo meets Ferrari, Lambo wants more more more from his engineers, Lambo fights with his wife, Lambo is a crappy absentee father – as Lambo’s inner conflict simmers and his rivalry with Ferrari fizzles and the cast is saddled with boilerplate declarative dialogue like “Either you’re a carmaker or a dreamer, Ferruccio,” or “It’s perfection I’m after.” The seams of a shoestring production are everywhere, in the choppy, thrill-deprived racing sequences, Byrne’s noncommittal performance, and the final act, which reaches a hasty conclusion and feels as if several scenes are outright missing. This movie shouldn’t have been taken out of the garage. (Damn it.)

Our Call: GRILLO AS LAMBO is a disappointment. SKIP IT.

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more of his work at johnserbaatlarge.com .

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'Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend' is a total mess.

Racing on the streets, scandalous love affairs, V-12s, and Enzo’s scarves: It shouldn't take much to make a watchable film about sportscar development in 1960s Italy, especially if it's written and directed by Oscar-winning Bobby Moresco.

Well, anyone can have an off day. We recently watched Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend and caught up with Smoking Tire podcaster (and Road & Track editor-at-large) Matt Farah to compare notes. Spoiler: All notes were bad.

Don't read on if you don't want plot point spoilers because you plan to see the movie—but also, if you plan to see the movie, we can only say we warned you.

Elana Scherr: You saw this movie before I did. I saw your tweet saying that it was 90 minutes you'd never get back of your life. And then I watched it anyway.

Matt Farah: Yeah, I know, it was shit almost immediately.

Hannah Stein (Matt’s wife, shouting from across the room): Ask him what his expectations were for it!

ES: Good question. What were your expectations, Matt?

ES: Stunningly boring. You think, at least there are going to be cars to look at. There were so few cars in this movie that I got up to get a drink and I basically missed all the cars. I came back and they were crashing in whatever race that was supposed to be, the Mille Miglia or something. And that was basically the last time you saw any cars.

MF: It was a regional pre-Mille event. That race was where they immediately lost me because Enzo Ferrari is there in a 166. And I know that the 166 came out in 1947, early 1948. So that sets our timeline for that race because Enzo (Gabriel Byrne as Enzo) is there talking about his brand-new car. So that's the year. And these guys are just back from World War II, and they're still kids. So already the years are funky. Then in the race, there's a Porsche 356 Speedster , and there's a Mercedes 190SL roadster. Those cars didn't come out until 1954. So you've got your corny storyline and all that. But then they have this race occur in a space-time continuum that can't exist.

ES: The entire timeline was screwed up, even to the point of the age difference between Enzo and Ferruccio. If you watch this movie, you’ll think, "Oh boy, Lamborghini was just a kid. Just a kid against Enzo's grand old man." But they were actually 18 years apart, so if Enzo is supposed to be, I dunno, 60, Ferruccio shouldn’t look 30.

MF: Right! OK, so there's that nonsense timeline. And then there's this street race dream sequence thing that has nothing to do with the plot, that never resolves itself, and comes back multiple times in the movie using two cars from the company's history that are 20 years after the movie ends.

ES: Oh my god, so bad. There's no logic to choosing those two. It wasn't even two equally famous cars of each brand.

MF: Exactly. There's a Countach , which I get using. That's an iconic design. But then you've got Enzo in a Mondial coupe. What are we doing here? You can tell some producers somewhere said, "We need to have Ferruccio and Enzo have a street race and pass each other." But they never had a street race. “Make it a dream sequence or something. But we need to have Ferrari and Lamborghini race each other, even though Lamborghini never built race cars." ES: “Let's just use it to show whenever he's emotionally distraught; when he misses his son's birth because he's looking at a Lamborghini badge for his new tractor and then his wife dies."

MF: How about when his wife dies and in the very next scene he meets the replacement wife that his best friend is chasing after, and he just decides that she's his after one conversation?

ES: Yeah, that was romantic. I understand how movies are made. I know that sometimes you have to fudge a timeline or you have to make things happen in a way that they didn't because otherwise you just can't fit everything in. I mean, human lives are so complicated. There are too many people. Sometimes you have to turn people into supporting characters, whatever.

MF: Ford v Ferrari is full of forgivable sins like that.

ES: Every mechanical moment is gibberish: talking about cast-iron valves and using a sledgehammer to put a wheel chock in front of a tractor wheel. MF: That scene annoyed Hannah. That was Hannah's most hated scene.

HS [shouting]: WHY WAS IT SO LONG?

MF: Imagine making a movie and deciding, "We're going to donate 30 seconds of screen time to chocking a tractor."

ES: My most-hated scene was the dinner party where Ferruccio draws a really bad sketch of a Miura . I'm super over the idea of the single visionary. I do not like that storyline. It's never true. And in this case, I think it's a great disservice because Lamborghini did not design the Miura. He didn’t even want to build the Miura. Giampaolo Dallara and Nuccio Bertone designed it, and Ferruccio was won over by the idea of marketing and that it was the first supercar. That's way more interesting than Ferruccio drawing it on a napkin to impress a cute girl.

MF: That is an excellent point. It is a serious disservice. I think my least favorite scene was the ending of the movie where he pulls out of a garage in a Miura, and you realize that you've been there for 90 minutes and basically nothing has happened. Other than him being shitty to his wives and shitty to his kid. There's been no great controversy or tension that's been overcome.

Oh, here's another scene that really made me mad: Where he tries to call out Enzo for the bad clutches in the car, and Enzo tells him off and then gets in the back of a Rolls-Royce and gets chauffeured off like he's some hoity-toity guy. Enzo drove around in a Fiat! They set up Ferruccio as the underdog farmer and Enzo as this high-society dickhead. In real life, Enzo wanted to race cars, but had a very kind of humble lowkey life and would not be chauffeured around in a Rolls-Royce. Ferruccio owned seven Ferraris. One for every day of the week.

ES: They just invented them and then made them less interesting than they actually were. I have seen some bad movies that I still liked. For example, the Snake & Mongoose movie about Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen. It's not a great movie. It's also low-budget, but it's very heartfelt. You can tell that the people who were working on it really wanted to tell a story. There's a through line to the plot and there's a bit of emotion to it. This just felt like a money grab or something. Someone was just like, "Oh, I have access to somebody who has a 350 GT. Let's make a movie about it."

MF: There are a lot of terrible movies that I love. I mean, I like Cannonball Run II . Have you ever seen Speed Zone ? Speed Zone is awful. But it's also funny. This was lazy and inaccurate and made no sense historically and wasn’t cast well. Just every element of moviemaking was at a two. It's rare when you see a movie where every single possible choice is wrong.

ES: Yeah, I'm trying to think if there was any moment in this movie that I found enjoyable. I mean, at the very end when they opened the garage and there was a Miura, I was pleased by that because the entire time my husband Tom and I were joking that we wouldn't see one. That they would just keep mentioning it, but we would never see it because they couldn't afford to rent one.

MF: I would've liked to see what happened to his buddy that he screwed over in the beginning. Where's that guy? We thought we'd see him at the end in some kind of wrap-up. “Random tractor guy owns 25 percent of Lamborghini still and is sitting on a yacht on the Amalfi coast."

ES: Maybe he gets together with the second wife, who you also never see again.

MF: This was a disappointment in pretty much every way a movie could be a disappointment. I have no redeeming thoughts.

ES: So, are you ready for next year and the Ferrari movie or Brad Pitt's F1 movie?

MF: They couldn't possibly be worse.

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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

In Theaters: November 18, 2022 (limited)

On DVD/Blu-ray: December 27, 2022

R | 1h 37m | Drama, Biography

Hoping to beat longtime rival Enzo Ferrari, Ferruccio Lamborghini tries to get his untested car prepped for a victory at the upcoming Geneva Grand Prix.