Mish mash of successful movies, formulaic and predictable

Rating: 1/10 (9 November 2017)

This is the film version of staring at a bowl of plain oatmeal. Even before the spoon is in you can taste the blandness in your mouth. Yes, it will fill you belly but there's no fun anywhere to be had.
Baby Driver runs down the clichés like a fast food bathroom inspector with a check list. Troubled, idealistic young man runs afoul of local crime boss and is cornered into driving for his crews, something at which he excels. The crews consider him mentally-challenged, and he finds himself constantly challenged for this. Suddenly, young man meets young, dumb woman who works as a waitress at this cool-looking diner, with a fat, greasy strict boss (how unexpected). During a heist, things start spiraling out of control (wow, can you believe it?) and he must quickly figure out his exit strategy, which is so obvious he might as well have posted it to the local criminal bulletin board. Cops are portrayed as slow, incompetent buffoons, incapable of apprehending or stopping criminals even when they got them cornered (Rosco P. Coltrane level police work). Fellow criminal turns on Baby on a poorly-copied Terminator style hunt, but ruthless crime boss turned mushy bleeding heart shields the young couple and buys them some time to set up the ambush (which goes poorly, by the way). I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the picture.
Baby driver delivers no dramatic plot twists, and from the start you know what will happen and when will it happen.
I feel sorry for Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey, for this is not their finest work. Quite the opposite, in fact. But then again, we all gotta eat.
The photography is nicely done, though.
Two hours down and a few bucks the drain, if you can and are willing to spare them.