Drive...A Modern American Classic

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2015)

Woah...Nicolas Winding Refn is now one of my favorite directors. What he did with this movie is absolutely incredible. This movie is my favorite example of what I call style over substance. The music, clothes, dialogue (or lack there of), and the cars are all so beautiful and stylish. I feel like I could watch this movie everyday for the rest of my life and be perfectly happy with that. People complain that with Ryan Gosling's quiet roles that he's not really a good actor, but I think that he and Carey Mulligan decided to use little dialogue together was such a good idea. You can really, truly see Gosling's emotions flow through this character. The Driver (Gosling) truly loves Irene (Mulligan), but her husband recently got out of prison, so it is kind of an awkward situation. Through a series of events of crime and corruption, the Driver ends up in a dangerous situation where he must continue to protect Irene from danger. But, in doing that, the Driver has to be quiet violent himself. He ends up stomping a man's head until he crushes his skull and brains, which some people think was unnecessary for the movie, but I thought that it fit perfectly. Refn is a filmmaking genius and I have no complaints about this movie. I would recommend it to anyone and hope that everyone enjoys it as much as I have.
10 out of 10 would recommend