Not quite as I expected, and kind of overrated

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2011)

Well, I'm one of those people who sees the reviews first before watching the film. And when I bought the DVD, I was kinda excited because this film's rating is high, 8,2 that is.
Then I watched it. I was so excited seeing the prologue when The Driver's carrying out a heist. I thought it was going to be something like a high-tension chase between The Driver and the polices, and that's implying how I expected this film was going to be. But honestly, for the first half of the film, I was quite sleepy, when it was filled with far-from-action-like plot orientation, but instead a slow, dark and gloomy orientation. But, yes, I admit it went better at the beginning of the later half of the film, when The Driver takes Standard to a heist, I thought the tension was going better until the end of the film, but instead, now it went down again to a gloomy and dark story of violence and vengeance. Not to mention there's so many flaws and weaknesses to this film. Like there's no character development, lots of meaningless scene (ie. the river scene, the movie-making scene.), unrealistic scene (ie. the cliff scene, the elevator scene, etc.), and despite those, would you think it's THAT easy to kill mob people with just a hammer? Aren't they supposed to have guards around them? Too many things left wasted, actually.
Come to think of it, this film is the same as Faster (2010) starred by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Where the main character is a nameless bad- ass muscled driver who seldom talks and went around the neighborhood killing people to avenge some problems for his dark past. If you ever watch Faster, then I told you, this film is quite the same with it.
So if you expect this film to be an action-packed and filled with breathtaking action scene, you're wrong.
Hope that helps.