Drive is like no other action movie out there right now

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2011)

I can't imagine that anybody who watches Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive will see exactly what they were expecting. The odd thing is though, if you were expecting a high-octane, 80's B-movie inspired, violent action thriller, that's what you get; if you were expecting an aesthetically European art-house flick, that's also what you get. This is the stuff movie buff dreams are made of. Ryan Gosling stars as our unnamed protagonist, a taciturn Hollywood stunt driver and mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. He becomes smitten with his neighbor (Carey Mulligan) and begins spending a lot of time with she and her young son, but soon her husband is released from prison and moves back in with them. Read my full review at: http://themuddoctor.blogspot.com/2011/09/drive.html