Review of Senna

Senna (2010)
7/10
Senna
20 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Many documentaries I have seen involve a main presenter and narrator taking on some sort of journey or finding out more about a focused person along the way, it is good that this one is just simply archive footage and voice overs from the people who knew the man. Basically the documentary looks at the life of Brazilian Formula One motor racing champion Ayrton Senna, who arrived on the scene in 1984, being with Toleman, Lotus and McLaren, and of course his many wins, including in 1989 and 1990 races against his friend and rival, French driver Alain Prost. Senna was successful winning the championship in four seasons, and he became famous all over the world, and obviously this film shows all the races as they happened, broadcast on television, and all narrations came from those that knew him at the time. This success continues until changes are made to the rules of what can be used in the racing cars, and the driver seemed to slip into a faze where he could not perform as well as he maybe used to, but he keeps going to do the best he can despite these low points. Of course the film culminates in the tragic day when in 1994 Senna crashed his car in the San Marino Grand Prix, one of the first fatalities to happen in Formula One in almost twelve years, and his passing came as a big shock. Since his death Senna has been praised as possibility the greatest Formula One driver of all time, because of his many fast actions and intriguing passes of other racers, so he is missed by many in the field, and with new safety procedures there have been no fatalities since his. I think it was from Top Gear that I heard about this film, and obviously being a motoring show they recommended it is a must see film, I am not going to pretend to know much about motor racing, apart from that being first counts LOL, but whether you like the sport or not this is indeed a most watchable motor racing documentary. Very good!
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