Driven

Rating: 8/10 (23 February 2012)

Though slow moving at the start, it was easy to see the connection to early 70's cult movies - the soundtrack, the intensity of our hero, and the masses of information not shared, but eluded to. My poor husband (bang, bang, shoot 'em up, foreseeable twists kinda guy) only stayed in the room with the movie because he was tired and nearly asleep. It didn't help that the soundtrack was slightly off sync, so he left eventually left for a prior appointment, but JUST AS ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. I text-ed him that what he'd been waiting for did eventually happen, and you certainly have to watch the quiet ones..... I LOVED this movie. Not the violence, but I get why it had to be so. I loved the intensity. It was clear that something big was around the corner, you just never knew which corner. About 50 minutes into it, I checked how much further the movie had to go because I was starting to get anxious about what they were going to pack in to the last half hour or so. Great cult-ish sort of classic that I imagine could go easily overlooked in the new cinematic world of speed, echo-blasting music and predictability.