Senna

The movie Senna contains an excellent blend of on-board racing, driver meetings, and Senna family footage. It is refreshing to see a world champion athlete who appeared to be such a good person.

Having long been a devout fan of Formula One, and being one of the 300,000,000 to have been watching the 1994 San Marino GP live when Ayrton Senna had his fatal crash, I have long awaited a film that did justice to his immense presence within the sport, and his mystical approach to life. This film manages to capture just that - the essence of the man.

I went into the movie with no real predisposition on Ayrton Senna as I had only ever heard stories about him from friends who were much more interested in F1 than I am/was. To see someone with such a passion for winning, or maybe more appropriately stated, "improving on every win" was awe inspiring.

I accidentally began watching during the last part of the 1986 F1 season, I was immediately hooked and would set my alarm to watch the races at 5 am on those Sunday mornings... It was and still is my church!

Racecar drivers only get documentaries if they die unexpectedly while in the racecar. Subscribing to this theory, I expect the Dale Earnhardt story any day now.

It is truly one of the finest documentaries, I have watched so far. There are no edits or manipulations of the real events those occurred.

This is a brilliantly made documentary, well worth the time. I would like to add here that I am very excited for this genre of film-making as over the last couple of years I have seen some amazing documentaries like Man on Wire, Cocaine Cowboys, The Two Escobars,Ancient Aliens, BBC's Life/Planet Earth/Human Planet etc.

As someone blessed to have witnessed the Senna Era, I found the film extremely disappointing the family footage was very grainy and in many instances didn't add much to the storyline. Very little footage was actually shown of his races, his pure genius as a driver seemed to become lost in the story line of politics and double dealing and while all of that was true and Ayrton was cheated out of several world titles I don't feel that the film did justice to his driving and the younger generations have missed out on something very special.

This film's style is as sublime as its protagonist, but that perhaps is its flaw.The film is more a piece of reverence for a man who attempted and accomplished, sublime performance, perhaps even something greater.