Not a great plot, but the acting make this a great movie.

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2016)

This movie is not quite an action movie, but you get your shootout and car chase scenes. Not quite a romance, but you get Ryan Gosling falling in love with Carey Mulligan. And it's not quite a drama, but Ryan Gosling's character is in love with a woman who already has a boyfriend (played by Oscar Isaac) that is in debt with gangsters for protecting him while he was in prison, and while Gosling was driving Isaacs for a pawn shop robbery to pay back the gangsters, Isaacs gets killed.
The plot isn't too deep, but at the same time, it isn't too shallow either, and Ryan Gosling gives a GREAT performance, always pausing before answering a question or speaking, which I'm not sure if that makes him look like a deep thinker or a slow one.
Warning, spoiler past this point. The ending of the movie will have you hanging at the end of your seat. After killing off all the gangsters that were involved in the killing of Carey Mulligan's boyfriend, he brings the money that was stolen in heist to the main gangster, played by Albert Brooks, and Brook's character stabs him in the parking lot after Ryan Gosling hands him the money - Ryan Gosling, in turn, stabs him back - and what appears to be a near-instant fatal stabbing.
The camera then shows Ryan Gosling sitting in his car, clutching his bloody stomach, not moving and apparently dead. After about a minute or so, he blinks, starts his car, and drive's off into the California sunset.