A Wasted Chance

Rating: Null/10 (2 October 2011)

This is not a bad movie, but it's not really anything special. It would have been, had it stuck to its name and initial theme. When you have a driver who is obviously good at his job, you tend to expect something that might echo Ronin or the original Gone In Sixty Seconds. It certainly has the talent - especially one incredibly spectacular car chase just before the third act. Had Drive continued onward from this point with a long (or several) car chase, it would have been something special. The first two acts build up nicely for just this, with an intensity that evoked movies like Sympathy For Mister Vengeance.
Unfortunately it doesn't, instead opting to wrap up like a text-book Film Noire. Drive could have been so much more. Instead it becomes a paint-by-numbers tale.
This might have been one of the best car-porn films made in living memory, but it failed to follow its destiny.