Good plot, excessively bloody

Rating: 5/10 (4 February 2012)

The plot of this movie is excellent. A quiet, lonely guy who is a skilled driver although a delinquent and violence-able man is at the same time a nice fellow who voluntarily helps the husband of a woman he is very fond of in driving him in and out of a heist. Unfortunately for him, things go very wrong. Mere chance puts him in the way of the mafia people that are sponsoring him for a car racing team.
The movie however is extremely graphic, during the first forty minutes nothing too violent occurs but suddenly the driver (Gosling) turns berserk and in personal defense becomes a killer himself.
What started as a movie of a stunt driver / car mechanic who at night works as a driver for thieves turns out being a story involving the worst kind of mobsters you could think of. The shift of the movie takes you unexpected although the slow pace of the beginning surely makes you suspect something has to go wrong at some point.
Now, overall a good movie but I think that the violence and explicitness is just too much, it it is really unnecessary and I can only guess it was done this way to make it more impacting to viewers.