Baby Driver: A bad drive

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx

Rated: 4/10

This seems to be the silly week for movies, what with no good one releasing from Bollywood and Hollywood pushing the trash to Third World markets like urban India.

That’s where Baby Driver comes in, banking on the salability of big names this side of the northern hemisphere even though those names — Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx — are mere sidekicks in the show about heists and the amazing driving abilities of a cherubic teenager.

As Spacey plans perfect robberies in banks, post offices and even moving cash vans, he blackmails the baby driver into giving the “crew” a ride in and out of the crime scene. First, he does it willingly to make some money for his wheel-chair ridden, deaf and dumb grandfather and then gets coerced into the action by a ruthless Spacey.

Much of the film makes no sense and the sequencing is of little consequence too. Just an aside thought up, perhaps by out of work producer director and actors to mark their presence on screen. Only, the effort goes waste in the absence of a storyline and any interesting dos all along this aimless film