Baby Driver [Blu-ray] [2017] [Region Free]

I am a 65 year old male with a lifelong interest in listening, playing and dancing to great music and I loved this film. This show, while admittedly violent in many parts, is the the most fascinating action film I have ever seen. There is clever humor, great choreography, and several ingenious twists before the end. Seeing around 40 movies each year and owning over 400 blue ray discs, I have to say this is one of the most entertaining films I have ever seen. If you are into some of the best pop music of the last 40 years and have an interest in seeing a completely unique take on a action film with a positive ending, then don't miss this one. It will continue to entertain you even after several viewings. Very Highly recommended!- Ted Jones

If you're a cinema buff or a cinematography dork prepare for one of the best edited films in years. The narrative is thin, but managing to articulate a real relationship between a foster father and a grown son in five minutes or so of screen time is minimalist filmmaking at its best. This is what Fast and the Furious would be if there was an ounce of care put into the film outside of CGI explosions.

Fantastic, energetic, and with one hell of a soundtrack, Baby Driver is another winner from Edgar Wright. Starring Ansel Elgort (in his best role so far) as the titular Baby, the movie follows Elgort trying to survive in a criminal underworld as a getaway car driver who suffers from tinnitus and uses a classic rock playlist to drown it out and time his driving. Wrapped up with Kevin Spacey's crime boss Doc at a young age, Baby has been stuck driving for the man's capers ever since with increasingly erratic criminals like Buddy (Jon Hamm) and Bats (Jaime Foxx). When Baby meets a lovely waitress named Deborah (Lily James) he finds something worthwhile outside of driving for Doc and tries to get out of the life only for the cautious and superstitious Doc to drag him back in. The action and driving is insane and wonderfully shot and timed to the movie's amazing soundtrack. Wright also uses clever sound editing to manipulate the sense of music in the film (for example during scenes when Baby's music stops a low hum can be faintly heard to instill the sense of Baby's tinnitus in the audience). With great acting from all parties (especially a terrifying Foxx and Hamm) the film's only downside is sadly the revelations about Spacey's behavior that came out after the fact. It is hard to watch the film without keeping his behaviors in mind (especially when he's referring to Elgort's character as "my baby" the whole time), but looking at the movie as a piece of art detached from the real world person it is a truly astounding accomplishment.

Best movie I have seen in a while. It has something for everyone and if you don't like it we probably can't be friends.

When Baby Driver came out in 2017 it was touted as a new type of action film because writer-director Edgar Wright syncopated the scenes with music. As it turned out the movie was an average heist flick. It had the main character Miles aka Baby (Ansel Elgort) being a good guy, but he lives a life of crime being a getaway driver for a bunch of schemers and sociopaths who are going to rob the U.S. Postal Service made up of Doc (Kevin Spacey), Buddy (John Hamm), Darling (Eiza Gonzalez), and Bats (Jamie Foxx). His situation is made worse when he meets a girl named Debora (Lily James). The dilemma was whether Baby could extract himself from the crooks he’d fallen in with.The opening scene shows what the film is going to be like. Baby is being a driver for Buddy, Darling and one other person who are robbing a bank. The music starts right away and Baby starts pounding on everything in the car to go along with the beat. Wright got more stylistic later on such as when Baby is walking down the street listening to “The Harlem Shuffle” and lyrics appear on light polls, a music store with a bunch of horns in the window appears when the brass crank up in the song, etc. The problem was the style didn’t make the story any better.You can predict how things will turn out at the end. It’s not a bad plot and the music was an added bonus, but it just wasn’t as great as everyone was trying to say this flick was going to be.C

This movie is easily my #1 movie of 2017. Edgar Wright smashes it again with Baby Driver. The acts in this movie are excellent and don't even get me started on the score. This movie is a PERFECT blend of how a score can drive a movie and get the audience moving without realizing it. I found myself moving to the music and scenes are they are so perfectly intertwined it's like a Tarantino film quality. Jon Ham, Jamie Foxx, and Kevin Spacey KILL it in this movie. I can't stress enough how good this film was.

When I ordered the DVD, I was looking for a sharp, entertaining action movie. It wasn't until the movie actually ended that I realized that I'd been glued to the screen... and that it seemed to end way too soon. It is indeed unusual to find such depth of character development and such believable intricacy in the relationships that develop throughout the film. Don't think for an instant, however, that all this character quality came at the cost of real action... because you couldn't be any more wrong! This has been the best surprise that I've had in watching movies in a long long time.Now that I've got you wondering if any movie could live up to my review, just buy it and watch it... and I'll look forward to reading your review.

Wow-that was entertaining! I think I watched the whole movie with my jaw dropped in response to the engaging action and surprising characters and my toe tapping to the fantastic soundtrack. Great performances all around but Ansel Algort as the main character Baby shoulld really win an award for the opening scene.Kudos to John Hamm for delivering as well. I think director Edgar Wright has raised the bar for directors. The movie will satisfy all types of viewers with .non-stop crazy, beautifully choreographed action; richly developed and written characters; fantastic ensemble and standout performances and unique cinemetography. If you are hesistant to watch (as I was) from the trailer, take a chance-you'll be pleasantly surprised.

You know when you see a film and turn it off or watch somthing else .That was what happened when i first watched this . After finding out that Edgar Wright had directed it , it was time too revisit and reappraise it , good job too as its very good , in the kind of way when you see a film you think your going to hate but surprise yourself by really liking it. This action film is in fact a musical , but without the spontaneous breaking into dance and song, it'll make sense when you see it. GREAT soundtrack ,can't stress that enough, good simple plot too . Getting someone to watch a film you love is always difficult as the listener looks at you as if you mad or someone trying to convert them too a new religion. Its time for a bit of blind faith in someone you dont know and surprise yourself and think " im glad i saw that" . This is shot in time with the music so the scene where Baby walks to the coffee shop is not only shot in one long take ' brilliantly 'done , you'll see the words of the song appear as griftti on the wall ect. as the camera reaches that point , its amazing .

It's a reasonable story given a stylised telling, in that rather than the music fit the narrative and action, it's the reverse. The actors had to time things to the song that would be playing.And on the whole it works to give a run-of-the-mill story a quirky appeal, a differentiator in an otherwise crowded marketplace.I do usually enjoy Edgar Wright's stuff, and this is no exception. He knows how to direct a good film well, and he also knows how to add a quirkiness, a unique style, to it. It's not as comic-book as Scott Pilgrim, or as comic as his Simon Pegg collaborations, but it is still a good take on a well-trodden genre. It's helped by an excellent supporting cast, including Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, and (is it okay to say?) Kevin Spacey, each of them happy to almost play second fiddle to the style. That's not to say that the style dominates, and in some regards that is a weakness in that the film works best when the style is at its most obvious. When it is more subtle, or simply lacking, the film struggles to raise itself, and just when you think it is heading into generic realms, up pops the music-dominated styling to raise it above once again.I did feel it could have done with some more popular songs, though, as the tempo, but that may be due to my personal tastes. And perhaps going too popular might have made the film just too beholden to the style rather than the story.heck, it was an enjoyable ride. Recommended for sure.

This might turn out to be THE film of 2017. Saw it on the big screen and the 4K version totally delivers. The blend of sound-track over the action scenes in particular, in time with what's going on in the film makes this an absolute modern-day masterpiece, and actually pretty unique. You won't be able to get the music out of your head. Too bad about the allegations against Spacey these days but it doesn't detract from my view this is an outstanding film and one to own.

A must see. I tend to over-analyze films now that I study how they're filmed so it's hard for me to become fully immersed into one. Baby Driver is one of the few films in the past three years that i completely bought into and thoroughly enjoyed. The soundtrack dictating the flow of the scenes rather than the other way around was a really cool thing to experience and i can see why there was so much excitement for its release. Glad i got it.

Enough people - and people who write for publications we've actually heard of - have raved about this film. It's not brilliant by any means, but it is a decent cut above the average. The reputation for the score is set by the two opening tracks but sags thereafter. The characters, whilst entertaining, aren't given the room to completely flourish. At times the plot and filming look like a set of scenes from Grand Theft Auto V. For all that, it's a worthy watch and demonstrates what happens when you drop a first-rate director into the constraints of the Hollywood blockbuster.Oh, and it's good to see Atlanta on the screen for a change.