The central premise is about a young, good-at-heart kid forced into a life of crime in order to pay off a debt. It's like that yappy drama society kid at college who is so consciously trying to act cool by breaking into song, dancing around chairs, drumming on desks and spitting jokey one-liners with a hand pistol flourish.the kind of person a cynical SOB like me just wants to punch in the throat. "Baby Driver" is showy, cliché-ridden and irritatingly self-aware.
Reviewed by Deathstryke 5 /10 A film so in love with itself, it needs its own cinema seat Baby's deaf foster dad had more lines (sign language) than Bernthal, yet he's not considered a main character. Oh and Jon Bernthal is only in the movie for about 10 minutes, so not sure why he was given top billing, when he's pretty much just an extra with a couple of lines. Superhuman villains in a non-superhero movie tend to ruin the whole thing.ĭoc remaining in the place from where the heist was launched at risk of being caught for no reason (even though he knew it was botched) made no sense, just like his sudden change of heart in "helping" Baby made no sense.
Then Buddy shows up again later after getting shot in the chest. There is no way Buddy would have been able to escape all those cops swarming him downtown. It's a given that being in debt to a crime boss means your debt will never really be cleared, so that's okay for a movie.Īnd you can suspend disbelief for driving physics and non-deploying airbags.ĭoc sending the third crew to meet with arms dealers was totally unnecessary for the job they had the next day, because they already had all the equipment they needed, so that whole scene was forced just for a plot device.īats proved he was willing to kill for no reason, so there's really no reason he would have left Joe alive. It ends up being just a variation of "The Last Ride" (2004). The movie could have gone in several different and more fulfilling directions, but it went full cheese instead. It started out great, but it began to fall apart rapidly just after the halfway mark.Ī more complicated plot could have developed, but the second half just seems rushed.
Reviewed by fb123 5 /10 Starts out great, falls apart halfway through
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