Review of Baby Driver (2017) by Fairbrother — 09 Oct 2017

On the plus side: most of the analogue action is good; there are a few decent laughs; the soundtrack is generally a pleasure; and Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx do better than you'd expect with standard-issue Hard Man roles.

On the down-side: Baby himself, slick moves or not, is a bland hero, too half-assed cool to register as anything but a nerdy director's fantasy alter-ego; his romance with singing waitress Debora is too-cute by half, stretching whatever credulity the pulpier stuff has, and clashing badly with the final act's cold-blooded mayhem; Kevin Spacey's on auto-pilot; and the ending trails off where it should speed across a definitive finish-line.

Entertaining in fits and starts but, on balance, it hits too many pot-holes to fully satisfy.