I watched this a little while ago and WOW what a film. I had heard about it from friends at school discussing it but I was not expecting it to be as good as it was. The opening sequence has got to be one of the best out there as it thoroughly grips you right from the start. Ansel Elgort (also Augustus Waters in The Fault In Our Stars) is incredible as ‘Baby’ the driver of a group of people on heists.
The film follows the story of two sides of his life, the rough side as the driver and the more soft and gentle side of a teenager trying to look after his deaf Foster Dad.
Kevin Spacey, John Hamm and Jamie Foxx also deliver some pretty spectacular performances.
Admittedly the only thing that didn’t quite work in the film was the final scene where ‘Baby’ or Miles (real name) keeps switching into different cars while John Hamm’s character is trying to kill him. The cars just seem to come out of nowhere and it doesn’t particularly add anything to the story line especially because there was only two cars to begin with and the rest of the vehicles just seem to come out of nowhere.
Despite this though, I still loved the film and would watch it again. I would give this film 4/5 stars as it would have just scraped the 5 if the final scene had made a little more sense.
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