![]() ![]() In practice however it becomes tiresome and results in a glorified music video. This sounds fun on paper and offers a slight laugh when a heist gets stalled and Baby has to start the song over. The film sells itself on its cool soundtrack and the fact the editing is heavily timed to the music. And it seems pretty clear that Baby is really only attracted to Debora because she reminds him of his Mother, which is more than a little creepy. The women are present just to accekerate the story of the men. Darling, played by Eiza González, is barely more than Buddy’s (Jon Hamm) drive to steal, and later, seek vengeance. But we get no such insight into Debora herself apart from the fact she wants to runaway to nowhere which conveniently makes her the ideal girl for Baby who himself wants to do nothing but drive off away from his forced life of crime. Lily James’ Debora pries into Ansel Elgort’s Baby’s backstory, creating a wounded, lonely but talented and misunderstood guy that we’ve seen a million times before. It’s becoming clear that Edgar Wright has the inability to write women. The film is all style and no substance, much like the women in the film. But ironically enough that’s kind of the problem with the film, it never manages to shift gear and become anything but what you see on the surface. It’s clearly trying to riff the road-movie genre in an urban setting by making it a road-movie that can’t actually hit the road. ![]() Baby Driver has a cool concept, stellar cast and great soundtrack. ![]()
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