Good hyperkinetic caper yarn

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2018)

Ansel Elgort is 'Baby", a young, music-obsessed driver in thrall to criminal kingpin 'Doc' (Kevin Spacy) who uses him as a getaway driver for number of increasingly bloody robberies. Baby, who is always plugged into music and records much of what he hears, is viewed with suspicion by the various hard-cases hired by Doc, ultimate leading to a climatic showdown with psychotic 'Buddy' (John Hamm). The film is darkly comic but not a broadly funny as director Edgar Wright's earlier films (i.a. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Hot Fuzz (2007). The driving scenes, which are primarily practical effects (i.e. not CGI) are excellent, the story entertaining (despite being a bit over-the-top and implausible (especially Hamm's seemingly unkillable bad guy)), and the cast and script uniformly good.