A movie for Teenagers. Fast and the Furious dumb entertainment

Rating: 5/10 (10 November 2017)

Most of us enjoy the Fast and the Furious series knowing how stupid it is going to be; when you watch this expecting it to be on the same level, then it can be a dumb, fun movie rental to enjoy. From start to finish, it's a movie where you completely turn off your brain.
However, when people start praising it to be anything more than that, you will be disappointed. It's super cliché with many stereotypical characters.
While the plot has absolutely nothing to do with it, this movie reminds me of the 1998 Wes Anderson film "Rushmore" (EXTREMELY horrible movie that's overpraised) for its own pretentiousness "art" of itself; the movie is really dumb, but when directors put a collection of good soundtrack, making it more like a music video than a movie, then that gimmick starts to fool some audiences to enjoy the "movie" when it's really the music doing most of the work. I mean, how can you go wrong with Barry White... he got that sexy deep voice... I love that song.
The movie is definitely geared towards the teenager audience with its A.D.D editing, the most cheesiest dialogues (the relationship between Baby and the waitress, especially the dialogue they have together is extremely cringe vomit-worthy) and super cheesy flashback/backstory of Baby with his mother.
Everything is in-your-face, so even the most dumbest low-attention span viewer can understand, (they show all these cassette tapes and there's one labeled "Mom" clearly right in your face too; even the laundromat, they put matching colorful clothing spinning in the machines just because it looks cool, really throwing out any real sense of realism)
The movie is extremely silly, not to mention so many outrageous moments (Don't even get me started on the double red cars with sunroof and super random cowboy 'agent' dude in a truck), where people conveniently appear and end up at the same time/place just for the sake of the movie, it seemed more like a major comedy.
The movie is super straight forward that there really is no depth to the characters. Everything and everyone is just so plastic Hollywood production, like something you see out of a Michael Bay Transformers film.
Without Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx, the movie would have been a lot worse.
What's actually really funny or creepy or awkward, is after all the Kevin Spacey scandal, it just makes watching him talking to Baby, his lines in the movie, really ironic.
For me, a more interesting, deep, intense robbery movie is something like "The Place Beyond the Pines" (2012). Baby Driver is like a teenager wrote the script for the teenage audience with teenager editing.