Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Dalbert Pringle I, for one, would certainly like to know what director, John Frankenheimer's justification was for this film's absolutely gruelling 3-hour running time. It certainly made no sense to me why this film needed to be so long. No sense, at all.I found that the more background and more personal dramas that were revealed to me about the story's characters only served to make me like them even less.Filmed at various world locations (such as - England, France, Monaco, and the USA) - This $9 million "Gals, Guts & Glory" picture was one of the highest grossing films of 1966.Yes. There was a lot of really exciting, "hard-driving" action in "Grand Prix" (Indeed) - But - IMO - Had this film been edited down to a reasonable 2-hour running time - I probably would have enjoyed it a whole lot more than I inevitably did.

Lugo1989 What an incredible achievement considering that Grand Prix came out in 1966. The racing footage has not been surpassed to this day more that 50 years later which puts the film way ahead of its time. There were a few racing films with sometimes decent stories made over the years but the actual racing scenes never felt right or real. They definitely do here. It is absolutely exhilarating watching those cars speed down those classic race tracks such as Spa, Monza and Monaco. The drivers in those days were true gladiators and had to have much more between their legs than drivers nowadays. The sound of the cars and the entire film is fantastic as well. The story itself is not that great and some acting feels a bit wooden. It is enough to hold the film together and the real stars are those beasts of a car anyway.Essential film for every Formula 1 and racing fan. Try to watch it with really good headphones or great speakers, relax and fell the roar of the engines!

Prismark10 Films dealing with Grand Prix racing have always mis-fired. Some of have tried to be realistic such as Le Mans and ended up boring its audience. Others such as Days of Thunder or Driven have gone more for the crash, bang wallop but been let down with its soap opera plots.Grand Prix tries to do both but its seriously let down by its length which is almost 3 hours, a bland lead in James Garner whose character is underwhelming and the laughably poor romance plotting.The film concentrates on four grand prix drivers. James Garner (Pete Aron) has lost his drive after an accident which severely injures another race driver Brian Bedford (Scott Stoddard) and manages to find a Japanese team whose owner likes his winning mentality. Scott's wife, Jessica Walter walks out on Bedford as she cannot stand his racing attitude and takes up with Garner, a fellow driver which makes little sense.The most effective character is Yves Montand (Jean-Pierre Sarti) the champion racer who has had enough of the dangers of the sport and his sub romance with a magazine journalist, Eva Marie Saint works much better. Antonio Sabato (Nino Barlini) is the young hot shot, a team mate of Sarti and a playboy.The film was made at a time when safety in F1 Grand Prix races belonged to the stone age. Crashes and deaths in races were common. In fact drivers seem to spend a lot of time attending funerals of fellow racers and the film taps into this era hence why Montand looks like veteran who has lost his nerve. Bedford needs help just to get in and out of his car after he comes back from his injuries and needs painkilling injections but still has the need for speed and the ability to win races.Director John Frankenheimer catches the thrill of the racing, some of the machinations of the Grand Prix teams such as Ferrari playing mind games with Montand. The film has real life race drivers in the background such as Graham Hill.James Garner as the main lead, although a capable actor is let down by the script. His character is bland and fails to convince as a leading racer and the romance with Walter looks misconceived. Racing drivers are driven, selfish even while enjoying a playboy lifestyle.It now looks like a film of its time but its not going to be destined as a classic.

mtloans Want to know the difference between Formula One today (2014) and in 1966? The last death on track was Aryton Senna in 1994. (2016 edit) Well, that didn't last long. At the Japanese GP in 2014, the rain was coming so fast the stewards pushed the race along, one car went off in the rain and before the giant tractor could get that car off the track, Jules Bianchi's car submarined the tractor and he was killed after a long battle in the hospital.Watch the documentary "Senna" and the new movie about Lauda/Hunt called "Rush" and you will have the essence of F-1 racing from the mid 1960's to the mid 1990's.In 1966 when this film was made open wheeled racing was extremely dangerous. There are cameos by about 30 Formula One drivers in the movie. Within 5 years 1/3 of these men had been killed.I drove on the old course at Spa Francorchamp in Belgium (featured in this movie) in the 1960's and used to do Club Racing in the US. There were no run-off areas at Spa to speak of and houses were right on the edge of track. One little slip and your 1400 pound car hit a cement/stone/concrete three story house. The house would win. Driving back then on these courses was insanely dangerous. The cars were unsafe compared to today and the tracks were crazy. Watch this movie and you will see why Jackie Stewart and others decided that driver safety is paramount and changed the sport for the better. You will have no better idea of those days than to watch this movie.I watch this movie every 5 years or so and it just as good every time.