Excessively high ratings of the "Baby Driver" (90%+ on Rotten Tomatoes) cannot be explained rationally. The movie is a well-made but formulaic thriller (unless one excludes illogical last-minute conversion of Kevin Spacey into a sentimental pussy). The movie has certain coincidences with imperfect but rather brilliant and totally unnoticed "Trance", which also had much better acting work by Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson (2013), in particular the finale with destruction of the chief villain (Jon Hamm/VC) with a falling car. Anglo "Princess" Lily James is miscast--though not terribly--as a waitress with a deep Southern accent. Obviously, the joy of seeing indestructible Mad Man smashing the cars and firing an array of handheld weapons and the adulation by preteen girls of the male star Ansel Elgort outweighs everything.
