Tries too hard to be cool

Rating: 4/10 (20 September 2017)

During the first quarter, the movie is quite fun and entertaining. But you still feel the main character does a bit too much, it's clearly trying to be a Tarantino movie from the 90's. A cool score, short blasts of action, likable baddies. The rest is basically taken from Drive. It also suffers from the "where is the supposedly second star of the film ?" Jon Bernthal is credited second, but you see him only for a few minutes... What happened there ? Jamie Foxx's character is also pretty weak, and Spacey's... just feels weird.
It is fun yes, but as far as car chases go I've seen better, and you never really care for Baby. His backstory is too easy, too short, the love story too cliché. The 90s used to be riddled with Tarantino ripoffs like this one, especially after Pulp Fiction. There hasn't been one in a long time, so I guess that's why people think it's great again... But this movie will be forgotten pretty soon. I can rewatch Drive or Pulp Fiction any day, but this ? No thanks.