A fun ride

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2011)

Ryan Gosling is a Hollywood stunt driver who is also a wheel man or getaway driver for robberies on the side. Carey Mulligan is a neighbor in the same apartment building in Los Angeles. Her husband is away in prison and Gosling becomes her friend. Her little boy complicates this almost love story between Gosling and Mulligan. They both show very little emotion matching Angelo Badalamenti's score.
Mulligan's husband gets out of jail and Gosling helps him pay back fellow criminals he's indebted to. The plot line is going for "Pulp Fiction" without succeeding. The car chases are well done, but nothing we haven't seen before.
The most interesting villain is played perfectly by Albert Brooks as a vicious, violent, low life wanna be gangster. Ron Perlman is also good as Brook's partner in crime. In this genre, Drive is not great but better than average.