Baby Driver: don't believe the hype, but grab it while you can
Don't believe the hype: I saw the trailers. I bought the hype. The car chase sequences are, indeed, brilliant. But can a film be more than car chases?
The story's not bad, and most of the leads are played well (especially Spacey). But, I don't know, it seemed to go flat in between. Perhaps I need to watch it again, but I didn't feel that it lived up to my expectations (whatever they were). And there's an inverse continuity problem at the end of the film.
I did like the way the subtitles were added. Baby lives with Joseph, who's a deaf mute, so they converse in sign language which is, naturally, subtitled. The subtitles are large, well-paced, and easy to read, yet unobtrusive. Someone put a lot of thought into that. There's also a nice in-joke on Spacey's appearance in Monsters Inc.
Grab it while you can: possibly Spacey's last performance to not get canned, at least for a while. Pick up a copy before some politically-correct studio suit decides to withdraw it from sale. But don't pay over the odds (like I did, by buying the steelbook!)
3/5