Babydriver (2017)

[Stewart Hotston]

This was AMAZING. It's one of the most energetic, endearing, exciting films I've seen in the last 12 months. The music, the structure, the whole damn thing is lovingly, no passionately, put together by someone who understands stories, who understands how to draw an audience in and keep them glued to the screen.

I am going to see it again the soonest chance I get.

 

[J Riff]

Having seen every heist flick ever... uh, disagree, a typical modren hypejob. I found the 'play the pop tunes to do da crime to' especially irritating.

 

[AlexH]

That opening chase scene had me grinning in admiration. The film was a bit ridiculous for me towards the end, and I found Baby annoying on a couple of occasions (probably not helped by my dislike of the actor's character in The Fault in Our Stars) but overall I thought it was excellent - and amazing how they synced everything to the music. There were a couple of moments that reminded me of one of my favourite scenes from Spaced (where Simon Pegg is exercising in his flat, and the kettle, ATM etc. start playing in sync to form a tune). You can tell Edgar Wright has been into this sort of thing for a while. And was it Noel Fielding who was in that Mint Royale video (also directed by Wright) that Baby Driver takes from?

Spoiler: Spoiler but fun fact

The scene where Baby rewinds the track (I can't remember which song) wasn't originally in the script, but the trucks in the scene were too slow to complete the scene before the song ended, so the rewind was added in to restart the chase half way through.

 

[Lucien21]

Pulling off heists to music....Sooo Hudson Hawk.

On a serious note I do want to see this film. The trailers looked good.

 

[Stewart Hotston]

for me it was less a heist movie and more a movie about sound and movement (in the same way that Jaws isn't about sharks but about wrong doers receiving their just desserts). There's a scene when he loses his ipod and all the music stops and it's so jarring (as deliberately intended) that it sticks out for its impressive construction.

Plus the best on foot car chase ever.

 

[J Riff]

Oh it wasn't that bad. Just stylish, a bit corny with the music bit. And - there is much better tones to do crime to out there. This movie would be better if he turned on banjo music, like Dukes of Hazard music on 78, or polka, even faster'n punkRock. Yeah!

 

[Dave]

Good, even very good, but not great. Great music, and unusual music for a film, but then Guardians of the Galaxy started that trend. Edgar Wright admits he was influenced by Tarantino, and that is plain to see. Although there is comedy in there, it is quite a departure for Wright to make such an out and out Heist movie. The whole romance and ending were corny but I liked it. That a single, black, elderly, deaf man would be allowed to foster a child in the USA seems very unlikely though.