Review: Drive
Drive Spending the a majority of the film locked in a (to quote the clash) Should I stay or should I go now battle with my brain, Lets just say Drive isn't going to stay very long in the memory. The brain child of a teenage boy (I'm guessing) who drew up a shortlist of everything 'cool' to put in a movie, there’s - fast cars, blood, boobs, guts, intense violence, gangsters, a heist gone wrong, a girl next door and one million dollars. What’s not to love? I hear you ask, well that depends on how dense your mind is and what you want from a film to satisfy it. Ryan Gosling, a talented actor who has an air of mystery and offers something different to Hollywood’s A-typical leading man, plays the lead role and salvages what he can from a bad script, top marks for cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel who makes the film a cool watch.
A part-time stunt driver, part-time mechanic who occasionally moonlights as a get-away driver gets involved with the girl next door (Carey Mulligan) duly ending up in a heist gone wrong with the fresh out of prison father of her child and then along comes the "I’m a gangster, you've got my million dollars, let's kill everyone" sequence.
Drive is light entertainment in the form of explicit hardcore violence, an oxymoron of a film. A film that makes you question is generally a good thing, depending on the questions and upon leaving the film, questions quickly entered the mind, what the hell was that? What did it all mean? Was that girl in front of me asleep? Or did she clock on quicker than most that the amount of attention required to follow the story line was on a scale of none to none at all. So many plot holes so little time, unnecessary over the top violence, a turn in personality for the main character that’s about as believable as a chocolate unicorn and a “we've run out of money just shoot the end scene so we have enough material to edit into a blockbuster looking 30 second trailer" ending, all point to a over hyped cash cow of a movie. Then again if your easily entertained and do not want to have to think about the movie your watching or your simply a young lady who wants to see that dude out of the notebooks 'bad side' then you’ll love it. Drive – Stalled.
Drive Trailer
