Love the story. Hate the violence and the vocab.

Rating: 6/10 (25 November 2014)

I really wanted to like this movie and wanted to recommend it to others because the story and the actors are so great, but the violence and the vocab make it barely worth watching or sharing.
I watched the DVD version and the TV version and neither works well. The violence in the TV version is still horrific and the dialogue given to cover the foul language is usually pathetic. Why not just write decent fierce vocabulary in the first place? Definitely appreciated that the edited TV version exists though. It would be great if all movies were readily available in their edited forms.
The story of Drive is great though. If you love having someone to root for and hoping that the baddies get their comeuppance, then you find that here.
Some complain about the pace of the film, that wasn't a problem. I understood and appreciated the artistic genre behind it. But intense stories have been successfully told and loved for centuries w/o the need for graphic violence or foulness. Those I'll watch and re-watch and recommend to everyone.