I know I'm the bad guy when I say this, but I honestly thought it was just fine. Not great, but fine.

I liked all aspects of the movie except the script. I'm a shelby Cobra/GT fan, I like cars, I like racing, I even like Le Mans specifically so I'm a sucker for this kind of thing.

That said there many times in the film where they really amp up the sports drama cliches so much that by the end of I was starting to get irritated.

There's a part where Ken Miles says something to effect of "We have to dump the engine, it's no good if we can't break" and his wife in the background goes "but isn't the whole point of it the power?" and I actually groaned out loud. Not so much that his wife isn't an expert, but that the director felt like his audience was too stupid to be following along at this point.

..and that kinda thing happens throughout the whole movie. There's many times where the same line gets repeated a couple times to make sure the audience understands whats happening I guess, but I feel like they aren't giving the audience enough credit.

They also included an unnecessary mustache twirling villain that comes in every few minutes to try to foil the plans of the heroes, but it doesn't really make any sense because it's in his best interest for them to succeed. He's literally being paid to make sure they win. It gets pretty hokey at times.

Despite both Damon and Bale being all kinds of great, Bale morphs into Ken Miles near perfectly, I can't give it an 8/10 because, while its a cool time waster and especially nice to see the cars on screen, I thought as whole it was just fine. Not great, but just fine.