The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2012)

Drive
As a getaway driver, it's vitally important to remember to always bring an empty bottle along to urinate in to while you wait.
However, to avoid the cumbersomeness of carrying a pee jar, the wheelman in this drama instead has a 5-minute waiting rule.
When an introverted getaway driver (Ryan Gosling) falls for his neighbour (Carey Mulligan), he must also serve as surrogate father to her son.
But when her husband returns, the driver must then use his talents to assist him with a job that will settle the debts he accumulated while in prison.
Unfortunately, it's a set-up, and the driver is left holding the moneybag belonging to an overzealous gangster (Ron Perlman).
A reserved romance, fuel-injected with revs of unbridled violence, Drive elegantly traverses the line separating foreign from domestic storytelling sensibilities.
However, if this were truly a European film then the driver would have to be intoxicated. (Green Light)