Movie Review
Review Baby Driver
I think this is what the people should think when they talk about a summer blockbuster. An entertaining movie but also a good movie, not just some CGI creatures destroying a random city and nothing more. This movie offers a very good entertainment and a very good story.
Baby (Ansel Elgort), a young, adorkable, but highly skilled getaway driver with a dark and troubled past. Baby acts as a getaway driver for a rotating crew of stick up men who pull high end jobs like bank and armored truck robberies, Doc, veteran criminal mastermind (Kevin Spacey) was impressed by the car thief's skills and guts and is able to use his connections to track Baby down and force him to join the crew as getaway driver in order to pay off his debt because stole his Mercedes. Baby's driving skills prove to be so exceptional that Doc refuses to accept Baby's resignation after his debt has been repaid, Over the course of the numerous heists Baby pulls off with the ever-changing four man roster he is teamed up with numerous dangerous, experienced and violent criminals like Buddy (Jon Hamm), a handsome party animal Wall Street trader with an expensive drug habit that he finances with bank robbery along with his action girl wife, Darling (Eiza Gonzalez), and impulsive, ax-crazy gun slinger, Bats (Jamie Foxx) who even declares that he is the one in the group with mental problems and there isn't room for another.
The movie is not predictable, it surprises you! Also every aspect of the film is measured , not too much romance, not that much action: the perfect amount. Fun characters, sure most of them are cliché, and it is deliberate! Just look at their nicknames: Doc (the mastermind), Buddy (the friendly muscle), Darling (the bubblegum-popping fierce gal), Baby (literally babyface kid), and Bats (the crazy one).This is played so perfectly to a point. Fun romance. Ain't nothing more fun than an innocent teenage first date with a flirtatious (on both sides) counterpart in a laundromat. And they didn't even have to cheapen it with a sex scene. What a breath of fresh air there. Fun heist plot. It's almost like a different version of Ocean's eleven.
I must give credit to Edgar Wright for using actual cars and stunt-men rather than CGI for the car chases, they feel so real and everything is shut perfectly for you to see what is happening.
Surprisingly, the best part of the film for me were Ansel Elgort and Lily James, the two actors I was initially very skeptical about. Ansel made Baby's character likable and Lily just looked unbelievably cute. All the supporting cast was super fun to see on screen. Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Bernthal. Jon Hamm and newcomer Eiza Gonzales do a twist on Bonny and Clyde and steal all their screen time.
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