Review: Senna

An incredibly powerful film that tells the story of the life and death of Ayrton Senna, considered by many to be the greatest racing car driver of all time. Anyone with even a passing interest in Formula One knows what's coming as the film reaches its end, but that doesn't make the scenes any less shocking or upsetting.

The one downside in framing the story of Senna as Ayrton the Hero and Alain (Prost) the villain is that the film is so biased towards Senna you never really feel like you get the full story at any point - any criticism of Senna is quickly shot down as being someone else's fault - be it Prost, Politics or the position of pole and whilst lip service is paid to the amount of crashes and incidents the highly competitive Brazilian was involved in, no footage is actually shown of them.

Despite not dwelling too much on Senna's darkside, the raft of never before seen footage from behind the scenes is expertly cut together to make one of the great sports film of our time.