After watching the horrendous biographical film titled Ferrari, I decided to try my luck with Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend. Despite a few complaints about production quality, I must say that I am pleasantly surprised.
It started where all great stories should start – in the beginning. We see Ferrucio Lamborghini return from war and then watch him fund his first prototype tractors and grow the business. We get to see the notorious interaction where Enzo Ferrari insults him and in response he decides to make his own cars. This concludes with the Lamborghini cars making their first public appearance and then we cut to the whole business running successfully.
The latter half of the movie is built on the competitive nature between him and Ferrari. We get a little romance and comedy throughout, but not enough to take away from the story that we actually care about. It contained everything that the Ferrari movie didn’t i.e. an actual plot about the main protagonist.
Now what this Lamborghini movie lacked that Ferrari did have was high quality production. The casting for this movie was just atrocious; they literally had an Irish actor playing Enzo Ferrari and an American playing Ferrucio Lamborghini. The audio was so dramatized in some sections that I couldn’t help but laugh – the cream of the crop was watching old race cars going at a snail’s pace while the intense music was imitating a fight from a Star Wars film. They also kept cutting to an imaginary scene between Lamborghini and Ferrari that had no real payoff.
I was pleasantly surprised at how this movie went into detail about Mr. Lamborghini’s life. And I was even more pleased at how it didn’t spend the entire time going into his personal relationships with women. I probably won’t be watching anymore car related movies for quite some time – unless they decide to make one about the origins of Volkswagen.
