'The World's End'
Writers: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Release Date: 19th July 2013
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
In the third instalment of his quintessentially British 'Cornetto trilogy', Edgar Wright continues his long-term collaboration with Nick Frost (Andy), Martin Freeman (Oliver) and Simon Pegg (Gary). In a similar success to 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004) and 'Hot Fuzz' (2006), Wright masterfully balances slapstick humour and violence, thus managing to make the boozy escapades of five childhood friends seem highly cinematic in the process. It is perhaps only in the film's tendency to get to wound up in these successes, particularly illustrated in the lavish plot twists and deaths in its later scenes, that shortcomings arise. While the humour remains, it does not have the same collective focus with which it began, and instead functions to distract viewers from the otherwise superb chemistry between the film's protagonists. While largely successful, like the bar crawl to which our protagonists engage, audiences are left as overwhelmed as they are jolly.
'Baby Driver'
Writer: Edgar Wright
Release Date: 28th June 2017
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥
Of his illustrious career, spanning approximately twenty-five years, Edgar Wright has always excelled in executing the wit and slapstick of British culture. In his latest action flick, 'Baby Driver', Wright expands these talents onto the heist genre, constructing a film which is as auditorily exciting as it is visually stunning. With help from Oscar winner Steve Price ('Gravity'), 'Baby Driver' sounds as eclectic as the continuous visual references it makes throughout. Both of these components ensure that, much like Baby's (Ansel Elgort) 2006 Subaru Impreza, the film maintains its high-octane pace. Of its very small amount of criticism, it can be noted that Wright muscularly navigates this aesthetic to the extent that is sometimes overwhelming. However, from each note to each nail-biting chase sequence, Wright illustrates the flexibility of the action movie, utilising its tropes as signposts in his journey to a conclusion which is equal parts satisfying and enthralling.
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