This whole clip is basically how it feels to be the getaway driver in GTA Online

"When in a getaway car, make sure it's a Subaru," - Sun Tzu The Art Of War

After 6 years later... it's still one of the best opening scenes in the 2010s and modern cinema. The thrills, the speed, and the synchronization of the music and the car is everything. It's a nonstop musical that doesn't feel like six minutes of Baby just cruising as if he doesn't need training wheels.

4:56 Seeing Buddy look so proud of Baby just makes the finale much more heartbreaking.

I hope he knows that driving with earbuds in is illegal. Wouldn’t want him to get into any trouble.

This has more fast and furious than the last 3 movie franchise

The best Subaru commercial ever made

IMO this is possibly the single greatest opening scene and/or music scene in film. there is so much characterization packed into every part of it and the use of the song combined with the structure and editing is incredible.

the only thing unrealistic about this scene is that cops are nowhere near this good at chasing.

I love how the entire time the bank robbers are not freaking out, they're not trying to tell him how to do his job, they just shut up and let him do it.

When the dude gets in the passenger seat pointing forward and the car just starts rolling back makes me laugh every time I see it

2:33 is a great clip. The point, the reverse, and the insane corner tracking shot as he comes around the barricade right into the camera. The camerawork is first rate.

Look at them putting on masks before they enter a public building. This movie was really ahead of its time.

"How to not get pulled over" Google : "Always stay within speed limit" Bing :

1:52 I know this may sound weird, but I think this is foreshadowing that baby does not like violence and is looking to see if anyone is needlessly killed. In this case, he sees that they are shooting into the air only, and not using deadly force on the victims for no reason. Later in the film, the one dude used too much unnecessary force on the security guards and pissed baby off

I love this scene. It's emphasizing that Baby is very much a kid and not like his criminal coworkers.

When you're the only good player in a GTA heist and have to carry your whole team

you know a film is going to be special when the very first 6 minutes are this wild. what a majestic movie

The hawkeye wrx (and STi) is my all time favourite car, and for it to be used in such an iconic sequence, brings a tear to my eye

I adore this movie with absolutely every fiber of my BEING. God, it makes every muscle in my face hurt every time I watch it. And this opening scene is the perfect example. First, the Sony pictures logo at the start. In every sony movie, the logo shows up, and it sparkles to the sound of a piano note. In THIS movie, the same happens, but the note doesn't stop. It keeps playing. Why? Well, number one, it represents Baby's tinnitus. The ringing in his ears, perfectly represented by a LOGO. That's something you only notice on repeat watchings. Not to mention it feels like the opening of an orchestra. All the sounds and instruments preparing, revving up, it shows that you're in for a good time. The song choice is PHENOMENAL, since #1 we get four perfect shots introducing everyone. And I get goosebumps every time I watch them leave the car, and open/close the trunk in sync. It's flawless. I love how we see ZERO action from inside the bank. This is Baby's movie. We see him jam out in the car. We see him watch uncomfortably as the robbery is carried out. And as another small detail I like, the first shots are fired right in time with the lines "the police are coming!" In the song. The driving choreography is FANTASTIC. You know you're in for a great scene when IMMEDIATELY, Griff points forward only for Baby to drive in reverse. As he spins the corner and pushes the police spikes 90°, or when he swaps lanes with the other identical cars under the bridge, it's all so engaging, so fun to watch, only gets BETTER on repeated viewings, and tells us everything we need to know before we hear a single line of spoken dialogue. This scene is fantastic. It's not my favorite, the hocus pocus chase scene is #2 and Buddy confronting Baby in the diner is and will always be my favorite, but the opening scene is perfect. Absolutely perfect. It's not my favorite, but to me, the most important part of any movie is the opening scene. And this movie is a perfect example on how to get every aspect of that right. Just one of the many, many, many, many reasons why this is my favorite movie of all time.

The new Subaru commercials are getting out of hand.

Imagine seeing a guy wearing shades slapping his car, stroking the steering wheel and screaming quietly right outside a bank that is being robbed

This clip will always be one of the best in film history.

Only TWO reasons this video reached 1 MILLION views: Great music Great Car chase All you need~

I can't believe this movie is already 7 years old. Crazy how time flies.

This is the type of person to escape cops without calling lester.

As a Impreza sport owner, I have to finally watch this movie!

Watching this again 5 years later......once of the best movie opening sequences ever!!!

-what my gf thinks ill do if i get a WRX: 2:38 -what my inssurance company thinks ill do with it: 4:00 -what ill actually do with my WRX: 0:55

The robbers put on their masks when they enter a populated building because they’re responsible citizens.

Anyone watching in 2024?

Just watched the movie. What an amazing opening for such a masterpiece and fantastic film!

2017: People covering their face to rob the bank. 2020: People covering their face to enter the bank.

my friend showed me baby driver because it's one of his favorite movies, and he prefaced it by saying it has one of the greatest opening scenes he's ever seen. He wasn't wrong.

In 50 years, people are gonna to look back on this clip just to admire the then classic cars.

What an ad for subaru. Amazing car

When Lester won't pick up the phone to remove the stars

What's more impressive? The driving or the fact that he managed to drive more than 14mph on an Atlanta highway in daylight?

Car chase movies....i don't care much but this one ? i was expecting nothing about it and ...god damn, what a kick in the ass !! WOW in 20 years, this one will be a cult classic !

6 years later and I still love how the hero car isn't a brand new model. It'd have been so easy for Subaru to say "Yeah, use a 2017 WRX, so we can launch an ad campaign for those and sell more." It makes so much more sense in universe for the hero car to be a Hawk Eye

Guy: points forward Baby: Uno reverse card

This is one of the best openings in a movie ever

And just like that, you got tricked into watching a Subaru ad.

I still remember the feeling and the butterflies in my stomach when I first watched this scene, because this street feel reminds me of how fast and furious it was, and every run used to give me that

It's literally impossible to watch the beginning of this movie and not finish it. You're hooked from the beginning.

I like how they managed to perfect a movie about a getaway driver.

Props to the stunt driver. What a legend.

Can't believe this still hits after 5 years🔥

Kevin Spacey: that's my baby *that didn't age well*

The actual stunt driver in this movie is cops worst nightmare

I always loved a good ol'Subaru impreza, but damm this movie is one hell of an add for this car

This is one of my all time top movies. It reminds me that cinematography is an art form.

Baby is probably a fucking god at Mario Kart.

This movie is gonna be a classic in the future.

Baby driver is my favourite movie, and this is one of the best scenes. We don’t know anything about baby or his crew, and this sets up the whole movie perfectly

I think everyone can agree even if they didn’t like the entire movie that this is one of the greatest opening scenes ever

What I learned from this clip: Everyone here apparently hates fast and furious.

As someone who has owned some half a dozen Subarus, it's really cool to hear them using the actual boxer rumble and turbo noises. They make it very known that they are driving a WRX, not just some ambiguous import. Really cool to see.

Still fire 🔥 after all these years. Baby rocking that Apple iPod? Haha

To be honest. This is one of the greatest movies in history. Yes. Better than most of F & F movies.

The music in this movie was on fucking point

The person who watches this after 3 years is a legend.

this move is such a thrill ride from start to finish. a masterpiece.

Still rocking the ipod classic in 2023 lol, bought 5 on clearout when they were discontinued.

Guy: *points forward* Baby: *drives backward* Guy: Am I a joke to you???

gets me everytime seeing baby wearing no gloves and his finger prints are all over the place on that getaway car

This movie deserves way more hype than it got. Thanks Kev.

This has to be the longest Subaru commercial I’ve ever sat through

This film should be considered a modern day classic. So original

"it's what makes a subaru a subaru"

To this day, still a banger of an opening

one of my favorite movie scenes of all time

in reality if you tried to do this in Atlanta you'd either end up sitting in traffic for 2 hours or your tire would pop because of all the god damn pot holes in this city

This is better directed than all the car scenes in the entire Fast and furious saga, not kidding

And this is why Subaru has the rating it has now with the sport cars 😂💯

When a guy in shades rocks out with his car harder than you at a concert, you know it's gonna be a wild ride!

05:12 even the columns are in sync with the music. Edgar Wright is the master of integrating music and film

I can't stop watch it. it's perfection makes a scene. music and image fusionated. best opening of the year

The use of everyday cars instead of supercars, the stunts, the camera work, the use of music...it threw me back to the Luc Bésson Taxi series, especially the first two. Even the fact that I thought that the cast was insanely overkill for just a car action film, but it's not really a car movie. Again, Luc Bésson. I was not expecting to see another great oddity like Taxi ever again, but this movie certainly delivered and I'm very glad for it.

See here, he didn't brake first then clutch but at the same time, and this is the best openning chass for quite some times now. We should't be seeing this debate for another while

"I bought the whole speedometer so I'm going to use the whole speedometer."

I just love how the music in the movie is more than something heard in the background but a motif in the story to represent how music affects Baby's life. When the cinematography is in sync with the soundtrack, things are going well for him. When it's not, he's in some kind of trouble and struggles to get it back in sync in some way.

Love that screaming J-turn. 😍

The iconic "yeah you dont need to tell me, im awesome" look on his face while driving

I felt like i was watching an highly advanced GTA car chase

This movie feels like the perfect example of when movies use licensed music. Sure, other times it's obnoxious (mostly cuz it's just songs that are popular at the time), but the way they use music in this movie is SO WELL DONE. So many different things accommodating the music: The timing, what's happening in the scene fitting the lyrics, the STORY itself-it's so fucking COOL!

This film won the Oscar for editing and well deserved

When the 3 came back in the car they were still all wearing sunglasses indicating they were the ones in control but as Baby started driving, they slowly remove them except for Baby who was now the one in control

Thoughts while watching this in theatres: Is this a musical? Hey wasn't that the punisher? Is he slow? *hes not slow*

0:48 I'm glad theyre putting their face masks on. Safety first.

I can watch this movie for 420 times and still,I can't get enough of it

at some point in my early 20s, I came across a magazine that listed the top 50 or 100 uses of songs in movies. as someone who loved both, this became probably my biggest obsession - imagining a film scene that was elevated from the use of a specific song. about 10 years later, during the middle of which I did my masters in filmmaking but had come nowhere near working on a film, i went to the cinema to watch this film with some colleagues. while i got in my seat first, i was waiting for them to come in as they were straggling behind with their popcorn and drinks. i was distracted when the scene began, but about a minute in, i became aware of just how precisely the edit was going with the song, and i suddenly forgot about the people i was with and became truly transfixed. the scene, and its perfect, miraculous synchronisation with the song, kept becoming more and more exhilarating. when it ended, i found myself wanting to jump in my chair with excitement. it was a great reminder that cinema can be such an intensely immersive experience. one of my favourite memories of all time.

The reverse to AWD drift is the smoothest car move in all of cinematography

This scene makes the whole Fast and Furious saga look like a child playing with hot wheels.

I remember being 14 and seeing this at the movies for the first time and walking out of that theater thinking this is the best thing I’ve seen in a while.

I like this movie it was really good.

This movie is so good, I recommend it to anyone that likes music and/or action scenes and/or good acting and/or fantaszic movies.

This scene has been watched more times than the entire actual movie...

This young actor is so talented and awesome that I enjoy this first 6 minutes just because of him alone! Even that hot actress doesn't matter lol. Kevin Spacey himself is not as memorable as this young genius!! Awesome movie!!!!

I love how every sound has a rhythm following the beat of the music.