Baby Driver - Is it the best of Edgar Wright?
First of all, I would like to mention I'm writing this review while I listen to The Nerdist Podcast episode with Edgar Wright to help me, maybe try to understand his mind. Secondly I would like to apologize I'm a bit delayed with this review because I live in Brazil and here movies go to theaters a bit later than other countries.
Baby Driver is the newest Edgar Wright's motion picture and it's sensational. I'm going to tell you this short story because you'll understand how hyped I was with Baby Driver. Last year I watched the Suicide Squad trailer and thought "Holy Grail, I luffed ith two Fs what they just did this outstanding thing in sound mixing and editing with Bohemian Rhapsody and gunshots, so charming" (I knew that this is called Mickey Mousing). Although Suicide Squad isn't good, so that hype I had with the trailer was busted, months later I watched Baby Driver trailer and thought "Ok, take it easy, this might be bad just like Suicide Squad was", but it wasn't and I felt so glad I watched this movie in theaters, because to see it on theaters is an outstanding experience.
So, now you can understand which was my feelings with Baby Driver before watching it. I'm ready to review. Baby Driver tells a story of this getaway driver with tinnitus, due to that he listens music to block out it and when he finally gets free of this crime life, his boss (Kevin Spacey) asks him to make another job for him. The plot is pretty simple, but Edgar Wright's direction changes everything, I mean, what would you expect from the director of Scott Pilgrim vs. World and the Three Cornetto Flavors Trilogy? His trademarks, the high-quality jump cuts and visual jokes appear here again and it's probably his best work.
Ansel Elgort is not the most expressive actor on Earth, but here he shows more than he did in The Fault in Our Stars and gets the public's charisma as Baby, Jamie Foxx scared me as an unpredictable anatagonist, Kevin Spacey's character seems to see a criminal version of Frank Underwood but I liked it, I considered Lily James' character as only an element to insert some romance in the movie, therefore was the only character I didn't completely liked, Jon Hamm's character made a too sudden twist in his arch, what I hated at all, not the character, just this charactewr's outburst.
Even though this movie is outstanding, it's not perfect and most of its imperfections are from the screenplay, there are too convenient coincidences, those impossible ones that would be unlikely in real life and also what I said before, those sudden twists with the chraracters archs. Actually, Edgar Wright has this small problem with character development, on his features he introduces his characters with greatness but then he doesn't develops too much after the character introduction.
Baby Driver is thrilling, gripping, dancing, cheered me up and the title they gave him in Brazil, In an escape rytham, totally fits with itself. He is already one of the best movies of 2017, Edgar Wright caught Marvel's attention after that (who caught the reference?) and is already on the Top 10 of the best British filmmakers. This is his masterpiece. 9.5/10
So, now you can understand which was my feelings with Baby Driver before watching it. I'm ready to review. Baby Driver tells a story of this getaway driver with tinnitus, due to that he listens music to block out it and when he finally gets free of this crime life, his boss (Kevin Spacey) asks him to make another job for him. The plot is pretty simple, but Edgar Wright's direction changes everything, I mean, what would you expect from the director of Scott Pilgrim vs. World and the Three Cornetto Flavors Trilogy? His trademarks, the high-quality jump cuts and visual jokes appear here again and it's probably his best work.
Ansel Elgort is not the most expressive actor on Earth, but here he shows more than he did in The Fault in Our Stars and gets the public's charisma as Baby, Jamie Foxx scared me as an unpredictable anatagonist, Kevin Spacey's character seems to see a criminal version of Frank Underwood but I liked it, I considered Lily James' character as only an element to insert some romance in the movie, therefore was the only character I didn't completely liked, Jon Hamm's character made a too sudden twist in his arch, what I hated at all, not the character, just this charactewr's outburst.
Even though this movie is outstanding, it's not perfect and most of its imperfections are from the screenplay, there are too convenient coincidences, those impossible ones that would be unlikely in real life and also what I said before, those sudden twists with the chraracters archs. Actually, Edgar Wright has this small problem with character development, on his features he introduces his characters with greatness but then he doesn't develops too much after the character introduction.
Baby Driver is thrilling, gripping, dancing, cheered me up and the title they gave him in Brazil, In an escape rytham, totally fits with itself. He is already one of the best movies of 2017, Edgar Wright caught Marvel's attention after that (who caught the reference?) and is already on the Top 10 of the best British filmmakers. This is his masterpiece. 9.5/10
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