Baby Driver (2017)
Genre: Action
Duration: 113 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey and Lily James
IMDb score:
7,5 (690.495)
Releasedate: 28 June 2017
Baby Driver plot
"All you need is one killer track."
'Baby Driver' follows a talented young getaway driver who suffers from tinnitus and relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to become the best. When he meets the woman of his life, he makes an attempt to get out of the criminal world. However, a doomed robbery forces him to fear for his life, love and freedom.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22644 messages
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I really liked that choreography. The opening scene with a robbery on Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Bell Bottom (and never going into the bank with the camera for a moment) and a little further on when Baby goes for coffee, after those two scenes I was completely done and I was sitting with a big smile to look. This indeed has nothing to do with epilepsy-inducing clips (which by the way have not been shown on MTV for about 15 years, there are students who can hardly imagine that MTV used to broadcast (almost) no boring reality shows but music) , but rather refers to musicals from the studio era. But then with classic rock on the soundtrack and just a little less emphatically.
In addition, the dialogues were often really nice and the film is wonderfully cast. Elgort carries the film with playful ease, but is flanked by crooks who are bold, but just not too much. I wouldn't play all of the colorful, varied rock soundtrack at home (not even the two Dutch songs by Focus and Golden Earring), but I thought it fit perfectly in the film. And that smile got so big that I didn't even have a problem with that slightly too stretched and too happy ending. Anyway: Wright seems like a movie buff to me and there were plenty of such endings under the Hays code. In short: loving popcorn entertainment. A film with a heart and above all a lot of fun.
4.0*
And oh yes: Jon Spencer (the one from Bell Bottom) has another cameo at the end of the film...
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Woland
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- 4837 messages
- 3880 votes
When I saw a trailer for this a while back, my first reaction was that it really looked like a terrible bolt movie. Still, I read good reviews, positive stories from friends and colleagues, and Edgar Wright isn't a complete cookie cutter either. I wasn't really convinced, but during a long flight with very few alternatives it happened. And, I'm sorry to report, but my first reaction turned out to be completely justified. An incredibly gimmicky film with a weak story, flat board figures who think they are too cool, some stupid robberies and chases, it was a film long annoyance. The only positive thing I can think of is the music that does have some nice songs, and maybe the setting I watched it in wasn't optimal for a movie like this. But still, Baby Driver spontaneously made me itchy. Friends and colleagues in question have some explaining to do, from now on I will listen even harder to my own first impression.
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eRCee
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- 13453 messages
- 1982 votes
The film stores like the well-known pincers of those animals we have too many of. The chase scenes in particular were unbelievable, I take that seriously for a film called Baby Driver. The main function of the protagonist is that the camera has something to center on, because otherwise it is both literally and figuratively a meaningless figure.
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