Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017)

So, it's yet another getaway driver film, but Baby Driver has enough individuality to make it worth the effort. For one thing, the Baby in question, played by Ansel Elgort, is given a quirk that makes him and the film more interesting: due to having to suppress tinnitus from a childhood accident, he listens to his iPod all the time, meaning that the film has a virtually constant wide-ranging soundtrack, and director Wright has shown he knows what to do with this. Secondly, despite looking like a pizza delivery boy, he's totally unintimidated by more fearsome criminals (such as Jamie Foxx rather good against type as a borderline psycho). Then there are the driving sequences, and they don't disappoint either: he of course turns out to be ridiculously good at his job, but the way the scenes are shot and edited has to match that, and it so often doesn't in other action-based films. It's well worth the effort, not that I mean that as encouragement for anyone to make another heist film, ever again.

7/10