Alright, if you haven’t seen Drive yet then you need to stop reading this, call your best friends or your significant other, and head down to your nearest movie theater and watch it. You better believe this movie is that good.
Of course, if you really want to read a review then you I won’t deny you. There is much and more to say about this amazing film. You might as well know, though, that I don’t have a single negative comment to make about this movie. From here on out it’s praise heaped upon praise.
Fantastic element numero uno is the trailer. This trailer was made the way trailers should be in that it gave nothing away. Unless you’re a spoil-sport who analyzes every single frame of a trailer and watches it again on your smartphone before you plop your buns into the cinema seat you have nothing to fear. The trailer is good, don’t get me wrong, and it makes you want to see the film but it doesn’t in any way capture the glory of this movie. And that’s a great thing because it sets you up to be blown away.
Superb item number two is the directing. Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of Drive, does an amazing job setting the right mood for this movie. The vision, the pacing, the action, the silence – the silence! – Everything was just dead on excellent. Such a leap forward from everything else I’ve seen him do.
Number three, Ryan Gosling. Let’s just say Gosling has come a long way from Breaker High. He was always good, always entertaining, but his presence in this movie was positively chilling. The last movie he was in that really impressed me was Lars and the Real Girl; I loved him in it. His performance in drive, however, is the new king. Because of this film I’m already going to see The Ides of March regardless of the lower IMDB score.
Four, the music. Five, the dialogue. Six, the romance. Seven, the casting. Eight, the gruesomeness. Nine, the plot. My god! Everything was just beyond unbelievable! I could just go on and on. It was as if Leon: the Professional and Man on Fire had a love child that was as attractive and poetic as Tuck Everlasting and as thoughtful and soft-spoken as Signs. This is the type of movie that’s worth seeing. This is the type of movie that reminds me why I love watching films.
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