Not a great movie but...

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2014)

Not the unmitigated disaster so many reviews here would have you believe either. Is the pacing slow? Yes. Does every movie have to be swirling vortex of continual action? No. Sure, there where a couple of times when I wished Gosling would just say something, anything. But it didn't ruin the whole movie for me.
I found this movie entertaining with the occasional slip. Some of the violence was a bit gratuitous, but it was also cartoonishly fake in its own way so it didn't bother me. Also, most of the people who got killed richly deserved to die.
The ending was a bit strange in that why would Gosling bother to meet with the bad guy at all knowing he'd be attacked? Why did he leave the money there as he should have known that virtually anyone could abscond with it and he would be blamed anyway? And finally, the ambivalent ending (did he survive) was bound to bother the kind of folks who couldn't stand the pacing but that is life.