Review of Baby Driver (2017) by Anderson G — 04 Aug 2017

Speaking that "Baby Driver is a new kind of musical comedy it's more cliché than talking that Edgar Wright only makes good movie, yeah, they're both cliches, but both are real, Edgar hits his new full length action Excellent, great cast, great direction and an exquisite work of mixing and editing sound.

The script borders on the crazy "Fast and Furious", we have incredulous situations, simple solutions, and motivation fails, but in "Baby Driver", the script is somewhat secondary, the action is also, all this is almost an excuse to do A single two-hour video clip.

We have the story of Baby (Ansel Elgort), a young man who has incredible talent, drove a car like nobody else, and ends up owing favors to a mafioso, who ends up using him as an escape pilot for his assaults, but halfway He falls in love and tries to get rid of his threats.

It is interesting that even a movie that can be considered a musical, a novel, a comedy and an action, contains a lot of symbolism, such as the fact that Baby needs to listen to music not to hear the buzzing in her ear, and as if Baby stifles her conscience With music being subject to anything, or like the dress of Baby and Debora (Lily James) always pass an air of something nostalgic and of the past, as if its love was something classic, or an old passion, and Edgar leaves it well Clear in small flames simulating a passion that happens in the 50's, or even the fact that the character of Jamie Foxx always have to be victimized to justify their crimes, or the mirror that has the character of Jon Hamm, where the He was a stockbroker and now he's a bad guy, as if there were no differences.

Edgar, even though he is a comedic director, takes exquisite care in the technical part of his films, and his last film was not different, until the sound of the bullet of the shots had soundplasty, until the walk of the characters aligned to the rhythm of the music , Is an extreme caution, his sound editing is good, but his mix is ??spectacular- Dunkirk's serious competitor to the category- but other aspects are also notorious, such as the angle of the cameras in the action scenes, Innovative, they use an absurdly good mount, or rather, the whole assembly of the film is very good and Edgar knows how to use the camera, aerial plans, open plans, closed plans, 360, change of frame, an incredible, gorgeous and wonderful Plane sequence and even a duel of eyes in the best style Sergio Leone, we can not fail to mention also his good and eclectic track with more than 30 musics and his urban photography.

Ansel Elgort is great as Baby, understands his character as no one, knows how to be sad, angry and indifferent, Jamie Foxx and Lily James are also very well, Keven Spacey imposing as always, and Jon Hamm is wonderful interpreting his passionate and psychotic Buddy.

We need to keep an eye on Edgar Wright, and not where, especially now that the director does his first job at Holywood, at the risk of having his style questioned by major producers or cut out by showrunners, but none of that happens, "Baby Driver "Follows his style and all the features of it are present, Edgar is an extremely young director who has a lot of contribution to make to the cinema yet and this latest release just proves it.