drive? why not just call it "stare"?

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2012)

what a let down. the movie is called drive. does it have anything to do with driving? well, it at least makes you think so. two car chases that last a minute, yay. ryan gosling and bryan cranston are both such great actors, how on earth did they get suckered into making this boring garbage? get a pillow when watching this movie. you will get one line of dialog, then you watch as the actors stare at each other for a few minutes, then another line is delivered. seriously, i bet if you take out all the long pauses between dialog, you would have ten minutes of movie. i was literally screaming at the TV to DO SOMETHING! this movie didn't know how it wanted to portray itself. first you think it's going to be some kind of car racing action movie. then it goes into other drama. then the character you follow as the bad guy/hero becomes dark in an instant and then smacks a woman, then the movie turns into a bloodbath. i was so confused with the lead of mood with this movie. i was so bored. i wanted to like this movie so bad. i work at a video store and was allowed to take next weeks movies home early. i took home 4 new ones, and had to watch drive first. i couldn't wait. the acting is unlikely. like when ryan's character is delivering the groceries to her apartment. watch how both of them act. is this how people in the real world behave? and would you keep wearing that bloody sweater around in public all day? still a great performance, but they really wanted to stretch out ten minutes of movie in an hour and so. and the score? wow. did the music director just have an open audition and hire the first few bands that walked in? nothing in the score fit the mood of the movie at the time. i am so disappointed. still, it was better than the time traveler's wife. heck, what isn't? 3/10