Whatever. Certainly not a patch on Tarantino in the coolness stakes.

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2017)

The poster says that Baby Driver is the coolest movie of the summer. I don't know that that aspiration is king size but in my view it fails to achieve even those unlofty heights.
It is QUITE cool but it's reliance on music as a key plot device requires the music to be cool as...
It isn't.
The anchor song, Queen's Brighton Rock, isn't even Queen's coolest song. Not by a long way.
The title credits, where our hero (Baby) walks the streets of Atlanta to the sound of Harlem Shuffle is clever as the lyrics pop up as street graffiti, shop names and so on but it's trying soooo hard.
The car chases are invariably high quality but I felt some of the casting was a bit gash. Love interest, Lily James, doesn't cut the mustard and Baby (Ansel Elgort) created no real empathy.
But the biggest crime is the OST.
Come on guys you could have done better than that.
Apart from Hocus Pocus by Focus and Egyptian Reggae by Jonathan Richman it was just kind of meh! It ain't no Tarantino soundtrack.
Now THAT's cool.
Jamie Foxx is largely unintelligible. But John Hamm and Kevin Spacey put in good, professional efforts.
This movie aspires to coolness, but it left me a little cold.