All style, no substance

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2016)

Drive is a movie that immerses you into its world through cinematography, directing and music. The plot is pretty basic:an unnamed guy extracts revenge from a gang of criminals so the girl he is in love with and her son can escape their clutches. The relationship of the protagonist with the woman and the boy is conveyed with little dialogue,instead stares and body language is stressed but still i found the acting not great just satisfactory. Films of this type generally don't bother much with character development, so i didn't mind much the fact that the characters were two-dimensional, they represented archetypes after all such as the brooding silent type who kills the bad guys, the former criminal who wants to escape his past but fails, and the fragile woman waiting for the silent type to save her and her son. This film is generally nothing more than a stylistic exercise, investing in Gosling's star power, Mulligan's fragility, a lot of gory violence, 80s music and great cinematography. If you want a film that has a beautiful exterior but little substance i am sure you will appreciate Drive.