Baby Driver

Edgar Wright is getting better with every film and this one made me incredibly happy. Baby Driver is an incredible stylistic film with cult potential and could easily become a classic in 20 years. It offered me more or less everything I expect from a movie starting with an excellent cast featuring the likeable Ansel Elgort, the tough Jamie Foxx, the pissed off Jon Hamm, the terribly sexy Eiza González, the terrifying Kevin Spacey, and the cute Lily James. The soundtrack is very catchy and adds to the great atmosphere, the visuals are flawless, the cinematography is unbelievably clear, the action is top notch (the sound design of the shootouts is among the best I've ever seen). The breakneck pace, the occasional humour, the emotional underpinnings and the unexpected reveals made the film an extraordinary experience, where especially near the end I felt like grabbing my balls and throwing them at the screen for joy at what a blast it was. Along with Hacksaw Ridge and John Wick 2, I rank Baby Driver as one of this year's best cinema experiences. This doesn't end with one screening. 95% (11/07/2017)

Drive but for kids and teens who can't yet read between the lines of a movie and prefer, ideally, plenty of pop and an attempt at cool action scenes with characters you remember by their hairstyles and clothes, not by what they do or the attitude they represent. The cast is stellar, too bad about the untapped potential, though. Sloppy in every way. (30/09/2017)

Edgar Wright is a pro. Never mind what he’s filmed before; now, with his quick-fire editing and love of music, he’s actually managed to film one of the best gangster movies in a while. When I was watching it, I truly didn’t even care how illogical it was at times. I was enjoying an action comedy so perfect that I doubt I’ll get a similar experience within the next five years until Edgar comes up with something new. And you realize that once you hear high-quality music in the background of a machine gun firing off. You also realize it as the music gets intense when Ansel Elgort’s having his life-changing moment. He might be just a twenty-three-year-old pipsqueak, but after half an hour, I finally got used to him; because beneath the rough layer of toughness and arrogance, there’s a boy who’s lived through a lot. And that’s getting me started about the story, which isn’t exactly any good, but I didn’t even expect it to be. This movie was filmed to be visually effective and to be a conscious homage to all the (not only) Guy Ritchie gangster movies. If Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were starring in this, I think it could even be another addition to the Cornetto saga. But this way, it’s “just” a simple, but highly functional movie. That’s exactly what I expected from Edgar Wright and it’s what I got in the end. Thank you for an amazing experience. At times, I was thinking that I’m not gonna get a similar experience nowadays. The editing combined with the music – absolutely awesome. (20/08/2017)

A scented pop escapade with quite an effective rhythm that alternates dynamic and conversational scenes, whose greatest asset is the thoughtful editing and the movement of the camera and the characters around the mise-en-scène, thanks to which even the seemingly slower scenes don't hinder the pace. But finding a single passage that I would want to rewatch in the future, or a single twist that I would find more interesting than driving a car on our highways, no way. The best character is hands down the wisecracking Spacey (the forcibly cool Fox didn't catch on), the funniest scene probably the most static – a crime scene inspection with an eight-year-old. Wright may have the craft down and the individual details figured out, but this time he just doesn't entertain with story or characters. 65% (05/01/2018)

The original playful to musical mood that Baby Driver initially enticed me with, unfortunately, either got old or lost completely during the film. It's certainly not a bad film, the action scenes have swing and the music is fine, but the villains are almost more interesting than the main protagonist and the story is... Ummm... It didn’t do much for me. Three and a half stars. (28/07/2017)