Baby Driver is overhyped trash aimed at impressionable teens just now discovering the Internet Movie Database. A music video movie is among the easiest to make and borrowing tunes from the Billboard Hipster 100 to heighten the “coolness” of your scenes is cheap. It’s like Edgar watched that Every Frame a Painting video on himself and applied every technique pointed out in that video to a tenfold in this film; also the genre hopping was eye-roll inducing–does the movie want to be American Graffti or Heat?

Also I like how Ansel Elgort was playing Elvis throughout the whole movie and how Jon Hamm randomly became the main antagonist towards the end of the film when it would’ve made more sense thematically for John Bernthal’s character to fill that role. But nope, we’re forced to watch Jon Hamm put on his best Val Kilmer from Heat impression.
And wasn’t that one of the worst on-screen romances ever committed to film? Everything felt incredibly unearned and we’re supposed to assume she fell in love with him because of REASONS and considering he’s Driver Gosling Jr. Some director’s have hints of protagonist self-insertions in their films but Edgar just blew his load here.

This glorified short Palo Alto film student film was Edgar Wright making an easy and approachable movie that hits all the millennial cool targets in order to bounce back from the embarrassing fiasco that was Ant-Man. It’s no Hot Fuzz.