Netflix Movie of the Day: Baby Driver is an incredible action movie with a stunning soundtrack and a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
The conceit behind it Baby driver – a getaway driver uses his iPod playlists to drown out his tinnitus, providing the soundtrack to his car chases – is very clever and works incredibly well: the film sounds as good as it looks, and it looks great. If you’re in the mood for an action-packed event with spectacular stunt work, effective CGI and plenty of thrills and spills, this is a five-star experience – and it’s on Netflix.
Ansel Elgort is the Baby of the title, and even though he’s tired of life, he has no choice but to take another job from criminal Doc, played by Kevin Spacey. As you might expect, things quickly go off the rails – otherwise it wouldn’t really be a movie – and the result was somewhat RogerEbert.com described as “as much fun as you’ll have at a movie theater this year.” And now you can experience the same fun from the comfort of your own home.
Is Baby Driver worth streaming?
Certainly. It’s hard to describe the film without it sounding like an extended movie video, but while it has all the visual flair and excitement of the very best music videos, there’s an actual movie here too: RogerEbert.com says, “Trust me when I say that (director Edgar) Wright doesn’t skimp on the content; “There’s enough story and action here to satisfy without the music driving the filmmaking… at its core, Baby driver recalls decades of films that anchored their stories of criminals and the art of the chase.”
But “it’s not just the action scenes that strike a chord,” said the Guardian say. “Sometimes the songs serve as a Greek chorus telling us that Baby ‘has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide’ because he’s stuck in a gun shop. But it’s when the horns and drums of the Button Down Of brass Tequila become gunfire, or the madness of Hocus Pocus by Focus delivers a breathless chase, where Wright really puts his foot down, with exhilarating results.”
rich gave the film a full five stars, with Terri White calling it “an awe-inspiring piece of filmmaking…playing out like a musical through the lens of an action thriller. Sweet, funny and utterly original – you won’t see a movie like this this year.”