Awful and completely overrated

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2012)

Just to put this review into context: I love character driven movies with beautiful cinematography. I am a big fan of compelling unconventional love stories, mysterious deep dark characters, symbolic plots, and beautiful shocking violent scenes. This movie has none of the above, at all. It tries so hard to have it, that it just sinks in its own pretentiousness. It's all about the director trying to show how cool this movie is. Guess what? It's not. Don't get me wrong, I care for anything that tries to separate itself from the awful movies Hollywood is making nowadays. I hate Transformers, or any other CGI crap. I love B movies from the 80s. I don't care if a movie is slow. What really bothers me about this film it's that is has no soul. It is self centered and pompous. The plot makes no sense. The characters are stereotypes. The level of violence is disgusting and completely unnecessary. Seriously, I think Bryan Cranston is the new God of acting, I used to believe that Ryan Gosling was one of the best actor of his generation (I've seen practically all his movies), and I have nothing but admiration for the rest of the cast. Then, why does this movie does not make me even care for what happens to any of the characters? Because everything here it's just so fake! As a viewer, you never stop remembering that you are watching a film. You never get driven by the story. All this fuss about how great "Drive" is just reminds us of how decaying the movie industry is nowadays. Is this supposed to be "the best movie of 2011?" Come on! Any five minutes of Breaking Bad, picked at random – even Walter Junior having breakfast! – can be a million times better than this 100m overrated piece of crap. And please Just because the main character doesn't do anything, it doesn't mean that the movie is "existential". Go read a book before you used that word! I'm so angry I was not going to write anything, but I need to get this out of my system And to warn other people: this movie is not art, it is a complete waste of time.