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Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive--a pulp fairytale about a driver struggling to protect an optionless family--has deep cinematic roots that run through the canon of existential noir from the '60s onwards, borrowing the central characterization of Walter Hill's The Driver, the professional code of Jean-Pierre Melville's The Samurai and the palette and pace of Michael Mann's Heat. Ryan Gosling has formidable presence as the un-named hero: a classic celluloid stranger whose eyes give away everything his controlled dialogue tries to conceal. He makes fair money as an in-demand getaway driver with a legit career in stunt-driving and racing ahead of him. But when a protective relationship is struck with a coping mother (Carey Mulligan) and her young son (Kaden Leos) he breaks his own rules to help her backslider husband with one last heist. Sure enough, nothing goes according to plan--and the driver must lay down a trail of retribution, attitude and scorched rubber to shake off a brutal entanglement with the mob. Gosling's depiction of heroic cool is flawless, as are supporting performances from Mad Men's Christina Hendricks as a trashy moll, Albert Brooks as a dangerous investor and Ron Perlman as the demonic gangster pulling the narrative strings. The cinematography of Newton Thomas Sigel (The Usual Suspects) also gives Los Angeles a hip starring role: the shots of Gosling racing his 1973 Chevrolet Malibu along LA's concrete riverbed--or just rolling it around the sodium-tinted backstreets--make franchise concepts like The Fast and The Furious look suspiciously like nerd territory. --Leo Batchelor
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Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best-Drive!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed it but beware of the hype,
By Asmodeous (North Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drive [DVD] (DVD)
I liked watching this film and thought it was well made and well acted, however, the hype levitates it to be something more than the sum of its parts. As critics have said, the plot is basic, dialogue is minimal, it is overly stylistic to at times which makes it a bit unbeliveable. I know the director considers it a modern fairy tale in the Grimm tradition and in this light it is effective, but unsatisfying also as the plot is so one dimensional. In spite of this though I can't help give it four stars as this is a film that makes and impression and is one I imagine I will watch a few times as stylistically it is quite fascinating and Ryan Golsling and the lead actress are very watchable. The gore and violence however will put off many so beware as these moments are quite extreme and dwelt upon by the director.
42 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shut up and drive.,
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This review is from: Drive [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
This is nothing like a Fast And Furious or Transporter movie so anybody expecting that will be very dissapointed. Drive is a modern film noir about a hollywood stuntman with no name who also acts as a getaway driver for the mob. Ryan Gosling is one of the hottest actors around at the moment and it's very easy to see why here, with a performance that echoes Steve Mc.Queen especially when he's behnd the wheel. Albert Brooks, perhaps best known as the father in Finding Nemo is very menacing as a mob boss as is Ron Perlman as his henchman and there's solid support from Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston and Carey Mulligan. It's a very brutal film with some scenes not for the sqeemmish. A very well shot film and with some excellent driving scenes and car chases, this is also a very intelligent film with a lot of heart too. Absolutely brilliant.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
man with no name wanders into contemporary LA,
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This review is from: Drive [DVD] (DVD)
Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver who supplements his income by driving getaways. The extended opening sequence is a brilliantly tense depiction of what this entails and why he has the reputation for being so good at it.However, just as it appears that he might be getting a break to the (legitimate) big time, with an opportunity to drive racing cars for a new team being set up by his boss, Bryan Cranston, and funded by two shady businessmen, played with sublime menace by Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman, Gosling's character falls in love with his neighbour, Carey Mulligan, a young mother with a husband in prison. When the husband is released it transpires that he owes a lot of money to unnamed mobsters and is required to pull a robbery to pay this off. Hence Gosling agrees to do the proverbial "one last job" to help the family. Of course all double-crossing hell breaks loose. This movie pulls together a number of "retro" elements - much of the lighting, styling and soundtrack in the movie are reminicent of the Miami Vice tv series, the plot is straight from 1940's film noir, Gosling's unnamed man of few words refers to Clint Eastwood's signature Sergio Leone roles - to make something quite original - with startlingly graphic violence. It is true that much of this is actually off-screen but the sound of breaking bones and collapsing faces is distressing enough. This verges on the gratuitious, but, I think, remains just on the right side of the line as it is used by the director to build tension by putting into the mind of the viewers what will become of the protagonist and those he loves should they fall prey to the mobsters who have set much of the plot in motion. That these characters matter to the viewer is a particular achievement of the film, which spends a leisurely time building the love-story element before unleasing the dogs of mob-war on the characters. At its surprisingly romantic heart the "drive" of the title perhaps refers less to the job the protagonist does and more what motivates - "drives" - him, that is love, to endure the dangers and horrors he encounters in the course of the movie. In summary then a very fine, on occassion unbearably tense and original thriller, but viewers will require a strong stomach, and perhaps ear plugs, during some of the scenes of violence.
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