Scorpion with a toothpick

Rating: 1/10 (20 January 2012)

This has got to be the hate it or love it movie of 2011.
It reminded me of most of Lynches movies. It's not about characters or plot, it's about the mood.
Great music, good actors...but about 30mns in the movie, I felt this unexplained, creeping...boredom taking the upper hand.
Somehow putting a white jacket, a scorpion and a toothpick had a powerful impact on everyone. I guess it added "personality" to a passive, dragging, BORING plot less movie (a skilled driver loses control when his life becomes entangled with a love interest, a professional opportunity and a botched up robbery thanks to working with losers that no one would consider).
The character(s) are thinned out to concepts, and somehow I never cared about anything that was happening, except when gosling's character came alive when it was all about being cruel and merciless.
There's nothing interesting in a film when you're left to rooting for a cold blooded, sadistic cut out cardboard piece.
Will someone please explain to me why this movie had so much impact?
I guess it's that Danish "je ne sais quoi" that put me off, but in abstraction I found that "Songs from the second floor" was much more successful.
Verdict:flat as a frozen lake(imho).