Film Review: Baby Driver
Genre: Action, Crime, Music
Cert: 15 cert
Director: Edgar Wright
Screenwriter: Edgar Wright
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Micah Howard, Lily James, Morgan Brown, Kevin Spacey, Morse Diggs, CJ Jones, Sky Ferreira, Lance Palmer, Hudson Meek, Viviana Chavez, Hal Whiteside
Running time: 1h 52min
Parents advised reading before viewing a film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: None.
One joke about role-playing in the bedroom.
Many kissing scenes.
Violence & Gore: Strong violence throughout the entire film. However, the camera never lingers, therefore, a lot of the scenes are not gory.
A character opens up his car trunk to reveal a dead body. Not too gory, a blood stain on his shirt.
A character runs over another character and then runs over his body again a few moments later.
A man drives forwards very fast and a man in the passenger seat gets implied by a lamppost. This is probably the most graphic scene in the movie. There is blood spurting everywhere on the window, windshield, and the rest of the characters have blood on them for the rest of the movie.
A man's car is set on fire. He survives but later falls to his death.
A woman is shot by police officers several times. The bullet holes aren't seen, but when she falls to the ground, some blood pools.
A shootout happens where four people go against around 15. All 15 get shot with blood spurts, but this happens very quickly and the camera never lingers on any specific wound until he ending where the camera shows all of the dead bodies on the ground afterwards.
During the ending 30 minutes, a couple police officers get shot with blood spray, and a man gets shot in the shoulder with a lot of blood.
A man goes against four people with a shotgun. He managed to shoot three of them with a lot of blood spray, before getting shot. There is a lot of blood.The man then shoots the man who shot him in the head multiple times with a lot of blood spray on the ground beneath him. The man then gets hit by a car which kills him; then gets run over multiple times more.
Profanity: Frequent uses of "fuck," "shit," "goddamn," and "bitch."
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: No onscreen drug use, but two references to "nasal problems" (cocaine habits) and a sequence where several characters accuse one another of drug addiction.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: A character continuously flashes back to a car crash involving his loved ones and is visibly distressed by it multiple times.
Scenes throughout where characters are held at gunpoint or shot at may be intense for some viewers.
Scenes involving Baby's adoptive father may upset some viewers, especially when he is seen after the house has been raided by Bats
Story: Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music?
Likes: Now that all the hype for this film has died down I think I can give my honest opinion on this film, Edgar Wright hasn't had a great track record when it has come to making the film's in the past and a few have been bad. So I've kind of gone into this film with an open mind to give it a fair and honest review.
First thing I did notice about the film is the casting for this film, I can honestly say the film casting is great in areas; but in some area's characters seem pointless, this is where this films slight downfall in the story concept lays.I explain this more in dislikes.
One thing about this film does well and credibly do well is the driving and the teen romance side, driving side this film has some of the best stunt driving work I've seen in a film, it's all real with no C.G.I involved. Now, who the stunt driver is here driving seem to have that avoid capture driving skill which is shown brilliantly in the movement of the car being chased.
The typical teenage romance side of the film which adds's something to the story that gives it a grounded feel to latch on to, as some other elements of this film don't feel grounded. Acting is pretty solid special with Ansel Elgort, the beautiful Lily James and Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx playing the typical hard gangster type, give the film it's edge.
As this type of thriller goes this, to be honest is a pretty average movie, some area could've been better but as a whole this film is great film to watch but to watch it on the big screen not really something I would recommend watching at the cinema, it more of a good DVD film if I'm honest.
Dislikes: The main problem this film has is this whole bank robbery things swapping characters for different jobs, I feel this part of the film should've been one team doing the robbery throughout the film. I feel this could've been better for its concept would have made more sense in the betrayal of the team, this would have given the film a more ground feel here which is why this swapping teams I felt personally was the films weakness point.
Overall: Great stunt work, not bad action scene great casting slightly poor excision on a concept.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7.3 out of 10 for the concept.
Screenwriter: Edgar Wright
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Micah Howard, Lily James, Morgan Brown, Kevin Spacey, Morse Diggs, CJ Jones, Sky Ferreira, Lance Palmer, Hudson Meek, Viviana Chavez, Hal Whiteside
Running time: 1h 52min
Parents advised reading before viewing a film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: None.
One joke about role-playing in the bedroom.
Many kissing scenes.
Violence & Gore: Strong violence throughout the entire film. However, the camera never lingers, therefore, a lot of the scenes are not gory.
A character opens up his car trunk to reveal a dead body. Not too gory, a blood stain on his shirt.
A character runs over another character and then runs over his body again a few moments later.
A man drives forwards very fast and a man in the passenger seat gets implied by a lamppost. This is probably the most graphic scene in the movie. There is blood spurting everywhere on the window, windshield, and the rest of the characters have blood on them for the rest of the movie.
A man's car is set on fire. He survives but later falls to his death.
A woman is shot by police officers several times. The bullet holes aren't seen, but when she falls to the ground, some blood pools.
A shootout happens where four people go against around 15. All 15 get shot with blood spurts, but this happens very quickly and the camera never lingers on any specific wound until he ending where the camera shows all of the dead bodies on the ground afterwards.
During the ending 30 minutes, a couple police officers get shot with blood spray, and a man gets shot in the shoulder with a lot of blood.
A man goes against four people with a shotgun. He managed to shoot three of them with a lot of blood spray, before getting shot. There is a lot of blood.The man then shoots the man who shot him in the head multiple times with a lot of blood spray on the ground beneath him. The man then gets hit by a car which kills him; then gets run over multiple times more.
Profanity: Frequent uses of "fuck," "shit," "goddamn," and "bitch."
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: No onscreen drug use, but two references to "nasal problems" (cocaine habits) and a sequence where several characters accuse one another of drug addiction.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: A character continuously flashes back to a car crash involving his loved ones and is visibly distressed by it multiple times.
Scenes throughout where characters are held at gunpoint or shot at may be intense for some viewers.
Scenes involving Baby's adoptive father may upset some viewers, especially when he is seen after the house has been raided by Bats
Story: Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music?
Likes: Now that all the hype for this film has died down I think I can give my honest opinion on this film, Edgar Wright hasn't had a great track record when it has come to making the film's in the past and a few have been bad. So I've kind of gone into this film with an open mind to give it a fair and honest review.
First thing I did notice about the film is the casting for this film, I can honestly say the film casting is great in areas; but in some area's characters seem pointless, this is where this films slight downfall in the story concept lays.I explain this more in dislikes.
One thing about this film does well and credibly do well is the driving and the teen romance side, driving side this film has some of the best stunt driving work I've seen in a film, it's all real with no C.G.I involved. Now, who the stunt driver is here driving seem to have that avoid capture driving skill which is shown brilliantly in the movement of the car being chased.
The typical teenage romance side of the film which adds's something to the story that gives it a grounded feel to latch on to, as some other elements of this film don't feel grounded. Acting is pretty solid special with Ansel Elgort, the beautiful Lily James and Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx playing the typical hard gangster type, give the film it's edge.
As this type of thriller goes this, to be honest is a pretty average movie, some area could've been better but as a whole this film is great film to watch but to watch it on the big screen not really something I would recommend watching at the cinema, it more of a good DVD film if I'm honest.
Dislikes: The main problem this film has is this whole bank robbery things swapping characters for different jobs, I feel this part of the film should've been one team doing the robbery throughout the film. I feel this could've been better for its concept would have made more sense in the betrayal of the team, this would have given the film a more ground feel here which is why this swapping teams I felt personally was the films weakness point.
Overall: Great stunt work, not bad action scene great casting slightly poor excision on a concept.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7.3 out of 10 for the concept.
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