Guns and Cars

Rating: 5/10 (23 October 2017)

'Baby Driver' is a terrific looking, terrific sounding movie. It's full of guns and cars, some really well done action scenes. (A small problem I have with all these movies is where the hero learned to drive like that. He's very young, there are no schools .. . . you get the idea).
The one small problem with the movie is that there is not one, single recognizable human being in it. None of these characters, none of whom is given a back story, has any recognizable human reality. It is difficult to imagine any of them existing in real life. Their sole raison d'etre seems to be to provide plot points and challenges for the lead character.
And this is the fatal law. Movies are supposed to be about actual people. Even far-out science fiction only works if it provides commentary on real issues. This movie doesn't have any people in it. It's more video game than drama. A shame, because some of the action sequences are quite well done.