Baby Driver

⭐⭐⭐

This film annoyed me slightly and it is mainly down to the trailer. Like in all trailers, they tend to spoil the film for you. However, the trailers for Baby Driver had all the best driving sequences in it. On a larger note, do trailers even work these days? I think people have already made their mind up about what films they are going to see beforehand based on actors and directors, if a person's previous work was good, you can more or less guarantee you're in safe hands again. Isn't it a case of less is more?! Why do film studios not take this advice on board - instead they shove the film down your throat with trailers on youtube, posters on the tube, on buses in train stations - it's far too much.

Apart from the poor marketing campaign for Baby Driver, the film was very good. The stunts and action sequences are superb, and to do them synchronised to music is even more impressive and original. Edgar Wright directed this film and he has such a unique style that I really like - his Cornetto Trilogy are particularly loved by all. It would have been nice to have seen what his Ant-Man film would have been like... we can only dream...in bite sizes.

The thing that let this film down were some of the main actors. I did not like Jamie Foxx, he mumbled his way through the film - I could barely understand what he was saying half the time, I thought he was hamming it up. Speaking of, Jon Hamm, he was a massive let down too. At the beginning of the film he played a likeable heist man, if that even exists. As the film accelerates, his character became psychotic, he was like a comic book villain..."I'm going to get you"! He's trying way too hard to get away from his most famous role; Don Draper. 

Overall, the action and all the car stunts are brilliant and thrilling to watch, they make the film, I could do without the redemptive story. There is a fantastic running chase scene towards the end. But I can't help but think this film got so over exposed because it had too many big names in it, Foxx, Hamm, Spacey - it seemed each had to have the same screen time. The film time was nearly 2 hours long it felt like I was stuck in traffic at times. Thank god for the stunts.