Overrated pretentious flick, that doesn't know what it wants to be...

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2012)

This movie was one of the biggest dissappontments to me in years. It has been praised to death by critics and regular moviegoers alike, and has tons of fanboys ready to defend it to the grave. So no wonder I had high expectations. But I was expecting something different(better)than what I ended up getting.
It starts promisingly enough with a fairly good opening scene and a promising start to the movie. But don't get excited, it goes downhill fast. We soon find out that the main character is either retarded, or is just a sociopath, but not in a good way that would be entertaining to watch(Joker, Alex Delarge etc), but rather a boring version of Norman Bates. Silent, emotionless and brutally violent if needed. But only a few times during the movie, it's like the movie knows it's boring and has to throw something at us once in awhile...
Speaking of boring and emotionless, the movie is FULL of excessive slow-mo and "artsy" shots of people doing nothing. For a movie called DRIVE I sure expected more car chases, we got two quite short and not particularly jaw dropping ones.
Watching this movie I thought what were they thinking, who is the target audience? It was almost physically painful to sit through all the long scenes where nothing is even said. And the slow-mo got more and more comical till it just was WTF seriously again in slow mo? I guess the main character's brain also worked in slow mo! I feel that at least half of the people "liking" it, are doing so cause it's "hip" to like it! I have seen over 1500 movies, and this just might be the most baffling to me.. Maybe I just don't get it, but if so, I don't feel as if I have lost anything more than maybe the time watching this.
They even managed to make Christina Hendricks look unattractive for god's sake! Didn't think it was possible before I saw this...