'Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours'-The Driver

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2012)

What a great movie this was! The chemistry is amazing between Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. It has One of the best Car Chase scenes because of how it utilizes the power of sound and sound effects. A lot of careful and precise work was put into Drive's Car Chase scenes, and it shows! Drive's Car Chase scenes beat any of the ones the Fast and the Furious movies ever had. For Drive, It's about quality, not quantity like it is for The Fast and the Furious movies.
Drive, like Lost in Translation, is poetry in motion, beautiful poetry from beginning to end. The ending of a film is very underrated a lot of times. In any sport, no matter how you start, you always have to finish to get that win.
In chess, you have a beginning, middle, and end, and you're beginning and middle can be fantastic or so-so, but if you have set yourself up for a great ending, then you you use that great ending game to your advantage and get the other opponent in checkmate. Drive and Lost in Translation both had so-so beginning and middles.
On both movies, at some parts i would say 'I really like this movie' and then at other parts I would say 'I'm not sure I really like this movie'. But if a movie has set itself up for a good/great ending, the ending can make the movie that was just so-so into a great film! Then, when you watch the movie again, the whole movie is great because of the ending(that you know is coming now) that brings it together.
Lost in Translation is one of my favorite movies of all time for what it did with it's ending, bringing it together to be great. The same goes for Drive, the ending is very poetic, almost Shakespeare poetic, that it brings the whole movie together, making Drive a masterpiece! The ending can make or break a film.(An example of a movie that started great and had a great middle was We Were Soldiers, really great movie in the beginning and middle and then the last 15 minutes of the film were much too sappy and contrived, making it an okay movie instead of a great one that it should have been).
I really like this director Winding Refn too, he's really got some great things he brings to his films(my first of his that I saw was Bronson, also a terrific film). Refn really puts some great music in his movies as well, and he utilizes that great music at the perfect time within his movies.
All in all, I loved this movie, Gosling is Terrifc, Mulligan is terrific, Albert Brooks is scary and has never been better, and Ron Perlman has a pretty interesting part too. A must see for all fans of great filmmaking!