This was the most fun I’ve had watching a movie in a long time. It has everything I’m looking for in a summer blockbuster: nonstop action, amazing soundtrack (best soundtrack of the year), and hilariously funny. Oh and it’s an Edgar Wright film which has never been a let down. I’ve never seen the star, Ansel Elgort, in anything before but I know he was in the running to play Han Solo and now I’m extremely sad he didn’t make the cut – he even dresses like Solo for most of the film.

Quick synopsis of the plot, Elgort plays Baby who has tinnitus so he listens to music to drown it out and owes Spacey’s character a ton of money so he works as a getaway driver to pay it off – hi-jinks ensue. The plot is fairly standard, and not that it’s bad by any means, but it definitely takes a backseat (boom, nailed it) to how stylistically it’s shot and sync’d up with the music. Wright gave an interview on the Nerdist podcast where he mentioned that he storyboarded the whole movie down to the second to make sure the action beats would sync up to the music he wanted to use which is absolutely insane.

Wright is known for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End (known to us film nerds as the Cornetto Trilogy) which he wrote with Simon Pegg but this blows away his previous films which makes me think Pegg was holding him back or it’s just that this has been his passion project since 2002. One or the other. As a bonus for those of us who like when movies use practical effects he said in an interview with Inverse that 95% of the movie is practical effects and they only used CGI to clean up some shots.

If you have time this weekend between brats and beers go see this movie because it’s fucking fantastic. Be sure to follow me on twitter @dgood826