Baby Driver
Came out; 2017
Time; 1 hour 53 Minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rated: R for violence & language throughout
IMDB Rating; 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 92%
Popcorn Meter 86%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Ansel Elgort as Baby
Jon Bernthal as Griff
Jon Hamm as Buddy
Eiza Gonzalez as Darling
Micah Howard as Barista
Lily James as Debora
Morgan Brown as Street Preacher
Kevin Spacey as Doc
Story Line;
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Debora, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music?
Thoughts:
I've heard good things about this movie. I know it's an older one but they don't always catch my eye right away. This was ok. It wasn't what I thought it would be.
It had action, some funny moments and a love story all in it.
It had a good cast, even with Kevin Spacey.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
When
Baby (Ansel Elgort) was a child, a car accident killed his parents
and left him with tinnitus (continuous humming sounds in the ears),
which he blocks out by listening to music on iPod. As a teen, Baby
lived a troubled life and it is revealed that he once tried to steal
a car which was, unknown to him, owned by criminal mastermind "Doc"
(Kevin Spacey). Doc had a lot of merchandise inside the car, which
Baby dumped. Baby was caught by Doc himself but instead being turned
in, he was coerced to work for Doc to pay off the debt for the lost
merchandise.
As a result, he became a getaway driver, and
ferried crews of robbers assembled by Doc. The crews would hit
various targets like a bank and Doc had a rule never to work with the
same crew twice. Baby is an expert driver and is able to use his
skill to extract the crews without ever being caught by the police.
Baby gets a full cut from each job, same as everyone else. He is
called Baby as people are still waiting on his first words. After the
loot is distributed, Doc takes most of Baby's cut as payment towards
the first stolen car.
Between jobs, he creates remixes from
snippets of conversations he records, and cares for his deaf foster
father Joseph (CJ Jones). Baby has hidden away the money he earned
from Doc inside the wooden floor of his apartment. At a diner, he
meets a waitress, Debora (Lily James), and they start dating. Debora
likes music and loves driving into the sunset, not knowing where she
is going. She is sweet looking and has a great outlook for
life.
Baby's supposedly final job for Doc goes awry after the
trigger-happy Bats (Jamie Foxx), who developed an immediate dislike
to Baby, shoots a security guard. Bats believes that the getaway
driver needs both their eyes and ears on the job and with Baby
listening to music all the time, Bats believes that he is only half
there. It becomes worse when an armed bystander chases them down, but
Baby evades him and the police. Bats wanted to shoot down the
bystander, but Baby prevents that with his skillful driving. Bats
knows that Baby deliberately made him miss that shot and tells him
later that once you develop feelings in this business, you most
likely end up dead.
Having paid his debt, Baby quits his life
of crime. Joseph persuades him to start fresh and become a pizza
delivery driver while Baby continues to date Deborah. However, while
Baby is on a fancy dinner date with Debora, Doc appears and insists
that he join another heist's crew, threatening to hurt Debora if he
refuses. Baby reluctantly agrees. Doc says that Baby has paid off his
debt and now it is time for him to profit. Doc says that he has done
every job with Baby, ever since they met and now, he believes that
Baby is his lucky charm.
Baby tell Deborah that he is being
forced to drive again and asks her if she would like to leave
everything behind with him. Deborah agrees.
The next heist
targets money orders from a post office. When Baby arrives at their
hideout, he is surprised that this job's crew consists of the
easy-going Buddy (Jon Hamm), his sharpshooter wife Darling (Eiza
González), and Bats; all repeat members, which is highly irregular,
because Doc refuses to work with the same team more than once. While
the crew attempts to purchase illegal arms for the job (Doc wanted
hardware that could not be traced back to the crew or to any of their
previous jobs), Bats realizes the dealers are police and opens fire,
presumably killing them all. Afterwards, Bats forces Baby to stop at
Debora's diner, unaware of Baby and Debora's romance, and nearly
kills her in a hold-up.
Doc is furious, revealing that the
dealers were dirty cops on his payroll. He decides to cancel the
heist, but Bats, Buddy and Darling disagree. Doc lets Baby decide; he
chooses to go through with it. He attempts to flee later that night,
hoping to take Debora and leave Atlanta. He is stopped by Buddy and
Bats, who have discovered his recordings and suspect that Baby is an
informant. However, Baby is able to prove his innocence when Doc and
the rest of the crew play mix-tapes he has created.
During the
heist, Bats kills a security guard. Disgusted, Baby refuses to drive
the crew, causing Bats to hit him. Baby rams the car into re-bar,
impaling and killing Bats. The three surviving crew members flee on
foot while the police chase them. After an ensuing firefight, Darling
is shot and killed. Buddy blames Baby for her death, and vows to kill
him. Baby steals another car and flees to his apartment to evacuate
Joseph. Baby leaves Joseph, and his earnings from all his heists, on
the porch of a senior care home along with a recording asking the
staff to care for Joseph. Baby drives to Debora's diner to pick her
up, where he discovers Buddy waiting. Baby shoots Buddy and flees
with Debora as the police close in.
Baby seeks help from Doc,
who initially refuses, blaming Baby for ruining the heist. After
seeing he truly loves Debora, Doc supplies them with cash and
directions to get out of the country, stating that he was also in
love once. Buddy ambushes them in the parking garage and rams Doc
with a stolen police car, killing him. A cat-and-mouse game ensues,
leading them in a multi-story parking garage. Buddy corners Baby, and
fires his gun next to both of Baby's ears, temporarily deafening him.
Debora disarms Buddy with a crowbar and Baby shoots him, causing him
to fall to his death.
Fleeing Atlanta, Baby and Debora run
into a police roadblock. Debora prepares to ram it, but Baby stops
her and surrenders, telling her she does not belong in the world of
crime. At Baby's trial, Joseph, Debora, and several people Baby saved
during the robberies testify in his defense. Baby is sentenced to 25
years in prison, with a parole hearing after 5 years served. He
receives postcards from Debora, who promises to wait for him. Baby is
released afterwards and finds Debora waiting in the same fashion he
had previously dreamed of, and they kiss. They reunite with a new car
and drive off into the sunset.
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