Baby, el aprendiz del crimen

There is never a dull moment in this action crime film about a getaway driver who has his own unlimited getaway soundtrack but who also wants to break free from the crime boss who owns his life.

There is enough style and visceral strut in this film that it neutralizes the one or two credibility gaps in the plot. Ansel Elgort is great as the title character, but Jamie Foxx steals the film with a lively performance as the loose cannon in the crew. Performances all around are solid and the dialogue is so rife with dueling wits, it's like watching a recurring display of verbal fireworks. These firecracker scenes of competitive criminals showing off their bravado are just as exciting as the chase scenes through downtown Atlanta.

The film also banks heavily on a heady, omnipresent soundtrack that keeps the tempo perpetually hyperactive. A word of caution: The action can be tough going at times; the film revels in its permanent state of anarchy before ultimately developing a mean streak. But for all the blistering gunfire and screeching tires, this is not a one-note film. It has its moments of quietly boiling tension and eerie backstory flashbacks. It's a film that wears its attitude on its sleeve and doesn't shrivel into conventionality. Not an absolute bull's eye, but recommended to everyone who wants a good rush.

As Baby (Ansel Elgort) was a child, a car accident killed his parents and left him with tinnitus (continuous humming sounds in the ears), which he blocks out by listening to music on iPod. Baby lived a troubled life and it is revealed that he once tried to steal a car which was, unknown to him, owned by criminal mastermind "Doc" (Kevin Spacey). With a particular job in mind, Doc assembles his team made up of nasty criminals (Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Eiza González ,Micah Howard) . While waiting for his next job Baby meets a young waitress named Debora (Lily James) ; the pair quickly bond over their interests in music and fall in love. All you need is one killer track. Every road out takes him right back in !. This year, volume up, pedal down !. This summer, the only way to get out is to getaway !.

A film by Edgar Wright, an English director who has become a favorite of many action comedy enthusiasts for his work with Simon Pegg in the Cornetto trilogy. After paying homage to zombie movies, 80s police movies, and paranoid science fiction, respectively, this time, without Simon Pegg, he updates the cinematographic language of the old robbery and chase movies, such as: Bullitt by Peter Yates, Driver by Walter Hill, Thief by Michael Mann, but adding drops of humor, sympathy, and an attractive love story. The film won the audience award at the South By Southwest Festival and its premiere in the USA was a surprising success in the country. Considering that this is not a superhero film or a blockbuster, the film was also nominated for the 2018 Oscar for best editing, sound mixing and sound editing.

The cast is led by Ansel Egort, who rose to fame for his leading role in the adaptation of John Green's best-selling young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars, and later starred in none other than Speielberg's recent remake of West Side Story. He is joined by the sweet and farcically beautiful Lily James (Cinderella), John Hamm (Mad Man series), Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards series), Jon Bernthal (Walking Dead series), Eiza González, Flea Micah Howard among others.

There's a moving and catching musical score by Steven Price, including wonderful songs. As well as brilliant and colorful cinematography by Bill Pope. This is an acclaimed and notorious film from director Edgar Wright who delivers the goods with skillness and aplomb enough . Edgar often uses ordinary trademarks: Deadpan humor in fast-paced moments; a recurring gag where a fence jump goes wrong; pivotal scenes that take place in a bar or pubs, his characters often share his love of action movies; musicand video games; action synchronized to music that is playing; frequent and effective use of foreshadowing; fast paced and heavily stylized action scenes and has included multiple references on his work to James Bond. Edgar is an English filmmaker , screenwriter, producer, and actor . He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg, Nira Park and Nick Frost. He also collaborated with them as the director of the television series Spaced and his last hit was : Last Night in Soho (2023). Rating: 7/10 . Better than average . Worthwhile watching.

I read an early tweet that described Baby Driver as 'a mix-tape with a film attached to it' and that proved to be an accurate comment. The tweeter may have thought this was a good thing, but I certainly don't.

Yes, there are some good tracks and the action sequences are elaborate and frenetic (a little too frenetic, actually), but the characters are dull, unlikeable and bear very little relation to the real world. I simply did not believe in them, especially Darling, the sassy, kick ass stock character that only a fool would consider to be a strong female character.

Then there's Baby, whose laconic, boyish demeanour makes him a rather uninspiring protagonist. His romance with Debbie, a cute little waitress, is yawn-inducingly clichéd, too.

If you want a stylish heist film that isn't so bloody try-hard, then watch Drive. It's an exercise of style over substance much like this film, but it has suspense, atmosphere and characters that could actually exist rather than blaring music, mind-numbing action and flat, hateful comic book characters.

Edgar Wright deals with the technical aspects very well, be it camera work, cinematography, editing or soundtrack. But in pursuit of the style, he forgot to write good characters. There is absolutely no conviction. You don't feel for any character. Their actions are confusing (like Kevin Spacey in the end). It tells you a lot when I say that the most interesting character was an 8-year old boy with barely 3-4 minutes of screentime. The dialogues didn't help either. No one is interested in the comparison between weapons and different body parts of a pig.

In short, the writing is abysmal and keeps you from enjoying what could have been a very fun watch. Perhaps they could have fed some more lines from Monsters Inc.

Remember that movie you saw when you were a kid, and loved it? Loved it! Best movie ever! You told all your friends about it, the great music, the cool characters, the gear cars? You talked about it for years, for decades, and then it turned up again, so you dragged your family to see a cool movie that was done right. And as you sat through it for the second time, you wondered "What happened to the movie I saw when I was a kid? This is nothing at all like it! The lines are stupid, the music is lame and the actors are gargoyles! What happened to it?"

This is that movie. It's not the movie you saw, it's the movie you remembered. It's got great music and great cars that dance, and actors who behave like Steve MacQueen, and Kevin Spacey shoots the really bad guys -- not the bank robbers, those are the heroes, but the really bad guys, and says "I was in love once." Edgar Wright -- whom I know from the movies he directed Simon Pegg in -- has directed a gangster-car-chase-teen-love movie that does what Justin Lin, Guy Ritchie and those other hot directors tried to do, but could not. Yeah. This is the movie you remembered.