Cool idea but it falls well short of its potential

Rating: 5/10 (24 September 2017)

'Baby Driver' was probably the movie I was most looking forward to seeing this year. The trailers looked awesome and with a director as talented as Edgar Wright at the helm, my expectations were high. Unfortunately, after a great start and a memorable opening sequence, it gradually falls away. The film is so obsessed with its style and appearance that it completely forgets to do what all movies are supposed to - entertain.
The plot is, in a word, rubbish. I can't believe Edgar Wright went from thinking up something as brilliantly original as 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' to a generic car chase action flick like 'Baby Driver'. If you take away the music, this film has already been done dozens of times before. The main character is also remarkably uninteresting. I don't know if the actor is to blame here, but 'Baby' spends 90% of the film just standing there looking smug. I found the character boring and a bad rip-off of Ryan Gosling's intriguing character in 'Drive'.