One of the Best Blockbusters of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2017)

I think this is what the people should think when they talk about a summer blockbuster. An entertaining movie but also a good movie, not just some CGI creatures destroying a random city and nothing more. This movie offers a very good entertainment and a very good story and for me it will probably be one of the best blockbusters of the year, along with Dunkirk and the third planet of the apes movie.
It tells us the story of Baby (Ansel Elgort), a boy who suffered an accident when he was young and because of that he is always listening to music that helps him relax and so. He is the driver of Doc (Kevin Spacey) who gets him to drive some bank robberies. Well, maybe it's not very well explained but I'm sure it's worth the watch. The story it's not just car chases and bank robberies. It also has time for developing the human side of the characters, at least of some of them, because the other are merciless and cruel. It reminded me to the movie Drive starring Ryan Gosling in the sense that the main character is a driver who does not speak much and the things he does are trying to do the right thing.
The cast was wonderful. Ansel Elgort as the main character, Baby, was perfect. He has this shy even emotionless face in some parts but he also has the human side in his relationship with the old man, Joseph, and with Debora, Lily James. She was also very good in the role as the love interest of Baby. The love story, I thought would be just an excuse to get more people to the cinema but it's very well introduced and developed. They have a great chemistry and at many times you really feel the same they feel. The secondary characters were also great, from Jaime Foxx as Bats, to Kevin Spacey as Doc, they all have little moments to shine, to make you hate them or love them.
And now I have to talk about the visuals. This is one of the best things of this movie. How the action sequences were filmed. Edgar Wright was able to give this movie the feeling he wanted. To make you feel tense, in danger, until the very end of the movie. There are many car chases and a chase running by the street and they all are filmed amazingly. And with this you have the soundtrack. Steven Price has a small score but here the important things are the songs. It's not a cheap excuse to introduce the songs. You have Baby's backstory as an explanation and the songs are just like another character in the movie. I have to mention not only Edgar Wright but also the music and film editors who managed to synchronize the music with the action sequences, with the gunshots, with the car chases, and gave a special feeling to the film.
I totally recommend you this if you like heist movies, action movies, thriller movies, and even musical movies, because this is some kind of action-thriller musical movie that should be the kind of movies that we should have every summer, not just Transformers or Fast & Furious movies. Just watch it and see it for yourself but I'm sure you will probably enjoy it as well as I did.