Bored to tears

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 2017)

Gotta be honest, I'm 40 minutes in so far, and I keep thinking "What the hell was any of the fuss about?"
The pretentiousness of the "soundtrack of my driving" is forced, lame, and drags us out of the story (oh, and it was done, albeit poorly, in a terrible Bruce Willis movie called "Hudson Hawk.")
Driver who doesn't talk much, falls in love with fairly nice young woman? Hey, didn't Ryan Gosling do that? (spoiler: masks were used, too)
And if I'm continuing to be honest, I'm not feeling the geek-love for Edgar Wright. Yeah, "Shaun of the Dead" was fun, and "Hot Fuzz" had moments, but the rest has been just...meh. I'm glad Peyton Reed directed "AntMan." He's a far more interesting and less mannered director.
Time to be brutally honest. I'm so un-engaged with how hard Edgar Wright is trying, I'm ready to switch over to the newest "Transformers." Sure, Micheal Bay directs like a hyperactive Chautauqua that just snarfed your meth stash, but he knows what he's doing. He's making a flipping "Transformers Movie." The man has no delusions he's gifting us with "Return to the French New Wave, 2017." Sadly Edgar Wright does seem to in the grip of that particular delusion.