25 years too late

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2011)

Drive is a movie that is full of film noir and tense scenes that are stitched together to tell a semi-interesting story about highly UNinteresting characters. Think the Transporter meets Risky Business without any of the redeeming qualities of each. Back in the mid-80s, this would have been original and creative. Perhaps new movie goers will find this exciting and edgy, but for anyone 30+ they will wonder why did they choose to go back to this format of movie producing. The acting (besides the performance by Al Brooks - not a personal favorite of mine, but someone who did a nice job playing the bad mob guy) is poor - more accurately almost made me physically ill. No one says much, but I felt like the writers were stretching a 30 minute story to a 90 minute feature. As for the main character - I liked him much better in Crazy, Stupid, Love (I think of him as the stupid part, but did his role well) but I believe he'll have 1-2 more good years and then fade into the abyss. What should have been 'tough' and 'sensitive' came across as 'catwalk model-like' and 'low IQ'.
Summary - I was looking for an exciting mob/heist/action movie and got stuck watching a mostly boring movie with a bad theme and mediocre acting. I would not watch this again if it was playing on a long airplane ride and I had nothing else to do - my lowest rating.