by RetroRomper » Sun Jul 02, 2017 5:39 am
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Saw Baby Driver last night and per the trailer, was expecting a heist film more akin to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, instead what I got was a highly stylized, music video like two hour film that incorporates a generic love story, at least to Deus Ex Machina moments, and a very flat story.
When I say flat, I mean the initial two or three main scenes of the film are just excuses for James Bond style car chases and then once the movie incorporates actual characterization, it starts to feel shallow and the characters stereotypical.
While I'd like to call the movie "fun," almost every movie released in the past five years could be characterized by fun or a popcorn flick, so at this point the genre and idea has been overplayed quite a bit.
** out of ***** stars.
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Saw Baby Driver last night and per the trailer, was expecting a heist film more akin to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, instead what I got was a highly stylized, music video like two hour film that incorporates a generic love story, at least to Deus Ex Machina moments, and a very flat story.
When I say flat, I mean the initial two or three main scenes of the film are just excuses for James Bond style car chases and then once the movie incorporates actual characterization, it starts to feel shallow and the characters stereotypical.
While I'd like to call the movie "fun," almost every movie released in the past five years could be characterized by fun or a popcorn flick, so at this point the genre and idea has been overplayed quite a bit.
** out of ***** stars.