Edgar Wright manages to make another memorable work, but still far from impressive

Rating: 5/10 (12 September 2017)

Shaun of the Dead was something new, especially back then in 2004. Hot Fuzz made him see like a one movie miracle. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World showed that he does after all have a vision. The World's End was his clearest peak being the 5th best movie from 2013 (out of the 113 which I personally saw). And now for the first time he became the center of massive hype with Baby Driver.
The movie rides a bit with character awe and badassery, something close to GAR even. It's been referred as simply "cool/cool movie", but that is true only for the first half.
After that we have romance as the main genre and the movie starts to suffer from massive quality drop. The movie seems to be quite lost at this point, making it seem like there was never a purpose for making this. Wasted potential is a good word to use here. The level of unoriginal and cliché reaches its utter max. This is something one would not expect knowing how Wright has been fairly original with his other works regardless of how well the originality paid out.
The characters turn out to be pretty much a mess. One of the strongest seems to have moral reasons, one simply goes evil because someone has to, another one simply goes fully out of character, main character and the love-dovey romance are protected by heavy plot armor because this needs to be a happy movie with a happy conclusion for some reason.
I will recommend this movie for its entertainment value, but if you have an eye for quality, except average and your expectations will be met.