Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a getaway driver for a mob boss (Kevin Spacey). He just needs One More Job to pay off his debt and be free. Of course it's never that easy so he hatches a plan to -- actually, I'm not sure exactly what his plan was because it goes to shit immediately. Cue the extended action sequence.
When this came out, people couldn't shut up about it but I haven't heard anyone say it's their favorite or even mention it since then. It's a decent popcorn flick but hardly a cult classic in the making, unlike Edgar Wright's other films like the Cornetto trilogy or Scott Pilgrim. This is probably due to casting choices. Elgort and Spacey are trash people in real life and audiences know that. Hard to see it having a popularity resurgence with that kind of cloud.
Jon Hamm was the standout here. The female characters were underwritten and came off more as archetypes than people, which is something Wright has struggled with previously, but for Dudes Driving Cars While Shooting Guns, it's not bad. My copy comes courtesy of Christy, who gave me the digital file that came with her DVD.
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