Baby Driver

Baby Driver

Rating 6 out of 10

I am always leery of any movie where almost all the critics agree it's the best movie of the year.  I tried to tamper expectations but with this movie scoring a current 97% on www.rottentomatoes.com and several saying it's the best movie of the year I feel I set the bar too high walking into the theater.

As we see from the trailer Baby is a twenty something guy (Ansel Elgort) that is an expert getaway driver for a mobster guy (Kevin Spacey).  He was in an accident when he was young that killed his parents and left him with a ring in his ears.  The only way he can work with the ring is to have music playing via his ear buds.  Baby is working off his debt with the mobster by driving and is almost even.  About this time he falls for a cutie waitress at a dinner he frequents and has dreams of driving into the sunset with her.

As you would guess there are some great driving scenes.  The Atlanta police don't stand a chance of catching Baby.  As luck would have it every car Baby steals for the heists are turbo high powered vehicles that can out run police cars.  The crew of bank robbers the mobster employs are very bad and don't mind blowing away a security guard.  Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx are very good.

I was entertained with this movie.  It's fun while highly paint by the numbers story plods along.  Good music and Baby does a good job with his part.  For me it was mostly fun seeing all the Atlanta landmarks.  In fact last year they were filming a scene at a bank over by a job I was working.  I watched for a while but had no idea what movie it was.