Most boring film in 5 years

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2011)

I've never fallen asleep to a movie before, but man I got close with this snore fest. Drive is best described as a mix between The Transporter, Payback and Days of Thunder...without any of the good stuff. It has none of the roaring action scenes or epic settings of Days of Thunder. It has none of Mel Gibsons bitter revenge persona from Payback, or any of the cool one-liners. It has none of Jason Stathams cool bad-ass attitude, or fight scenes from The Transporter, but other than that it is pretty close. The story of Drive is pretty solid. It is about a stunt driver who falls in love with his neighbor, but after a heist goes wrong, a hit is put out on him. Ryan Gosling plays the main character, and some would say his acting was very good, but to me, he spends half the movie starring blindly into thin air, for 30 seconds at a time (I was so bored, I actually started timing it), while contemplating answers for complicating questions like: "would you like a glass of water?". This movie is artistic in the worst possible way. It is full of weird angles, strange pauses, and confusing plot devices. Most of which could be really cool if the movie was actually any good, but it is not. It is unbelievably boring, from start to finish. Okay I'm usually an action junkie, but I don't NEED action in movies. My favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption, and other movies like The Devil Wears Prada and Sleepers, I really enjoy. They have no action, but at least something happens throughout the entire movie. With Drive, if you cut out all scenes where Gosling stares blindly into thin air, or when they show him driving down a dark road (for no purpose), you'd have less than 1 hour of film.