A terrible movie overall

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2017)

I purely watched this movie for Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey. The previews made the movie seem mildly interesting, so I decided to watch to kill some time. Terrible movie. It was a circle of opinions for me: the beginning was bad, middle good, and ending bad. Obviously, a terrible movie overall. The plot was hardly there and the script was a joke. There was absolutely no character development throughout the whole movie. Given Baby's back story (the only part of the movie that made sense and is presented in a sophisticated way), Baby should not be as confident as he is. He didn't gradually build up confidence, he just is. If anything, he should be a paranoid hermit. Wright did not do anything to make me develop an emotional relationship to the main characters so the scenes where I was supposed to be on the edge of my seat biting my nails, I was asking myself, "Am I really supposed to feel for them right now, only after seeing them together on screen twice?" It was very fast paced, but not much going on. I'm also giving this movie a negative review because there was so many unnecessary aspects. Chekhov's gun should be applied heavily to this movie. Baby has over a dozen different iPods, but he only makes a point of using a different one when he's at the diner with Debora. Which he just so happens to pull out of his pocket, where he also keeps extra pairs of glasses apparently. He has several pairs of glasses changes in the movie, why? He wasn't wearing glasses during the crash and they don't cover his scars. There are so many more of these types of points, but lastly, his cassette tapes. I feel like in the middle of shooting the movie they realized they didn't know how to end it so they decided to make Baby have a tape recorder. This ultimately leads to the end because his cassettes, or one specific cassette titled "Mom", ties up all the loose ends, however, messily.