Director Edger Wright's tribute to car chase and heist movies. Baby Driver centers on a young getaway driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort), who at heart is a good kid and only reluctantly works as a get away driver for reasons reveled over the course of the movie. Baby falls for a young waitress named Debra, played by an adorable Lily James, this complicates things for Baby who tries to keep his relationship with her and his criminal dealings separate, this doesn't work out.
Part of Baby's backstory is that he was involved in a car accident as a young child that took the lives of his beloved mother and not so beloved father, and left him with severe tinnitus. To drown out the ringing in his ears Baby is constantly listing to music on his iPods, which gives the film makers a welcome excuse to license a whole lot of great music for the soundtrack, including the lesser known Simon and Garfunkel tune from which the movie draws its title. In addition to all the great music on the soundtrack various musicians are cast in small supporting roles such as Flea as a short order cook, and Paul Williams as an arms dealer, which might be the greatest thing I've seen on screen all year. The rest of the cast is strong, including Kevin Spacy, Jon Hamm, and Jamie Foxx as criminals with whom Baby has dealings.
Along with the great music the film boats great chase sequences, and a few plot twists and turns I didn't see coming. This is a great movie to see on a big screen with an audience, its pretty smart and one of the freshest action movies to come along in some time. ***1/2
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