Review of Baby Driver (2017) by 43In2014 — 20 Jul 2017

The short review: A film that is synced to the song that's playing at the time. It's very loud, violent and smart, but it slightly loses its way towards the end when the characters need to face up to their bad deeds.

> Related media: It's an original story with no related media.

> What's it like?: Baby is an expert getaway driver of several robbers hired and led by a character played by Kevin Spacey. Due to tinitus, Baby listens to songs all the time and he sync his actions around each song. Baby is only interested in paying off his debt to 'Spacey' and then quitting. He is not interested in the robbery nor the money, but 'Spacey' would not let him quit. He threatens the people that Baby loves to force him to continue. It all comes down to the last job, where things do not go according to plan.

> Pros:

> 1) The concept of syncing the action to the song played at the time is fresh and interesting. >.

2) The film is smart in many ways. For example, the characters all use pseudonyms to hide their real identities. Their real names were later revealed in due time and in interesting ways that brings up their backgound, hence character development. Other examples include the escape plan and its execution, and what happens when things don't go according to plan.

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Cons:

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1) The volume is rather loud.

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2) Unfortunately, I am not familiar with many of the songs used, nor were the song right-away likable, unlike those in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1.

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3) There's a lot of violence in this film.

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4) Towards the end, certain events become slightly harder for me to accept as they did not felt reasonable. They are spoilers, so I can't be specific here. > How would the the different age groups rate it?

Children: (not rated for children).

Teens: Good.

Young adults: Excellent.

Medium age adults: Good.

Old adults: Good.

> Rating: 4/5 (no half scores). It's worth to see it in the cinema.