underrated masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2018)

Most of the problems with the film people bring up is not at the fault of the film but how it was advertised. its slow because it needs to be. just because you thought
it was going to be some action packed fast and furious type movie doesn't mean u should denote the film for false expectations. its not an action movie but a crime drama. personally i enjoyed the film and to this day is my no.1. the direction is so beautiful and real, we don't get movies like that often. its directed like it actually happens and that's what reels you in for the drama part.
as far tone most complain of the switch between action and slow scenes boring or strange. but that's the point, we are supposed to feel like driver, always changing but never happy until Irene arrives.
also people complain of the gore, saying it was unnecessarily gory. wrong, now the scene in question is the elevator scene and the motel room scene.
each provide a realistic use of gore that pays into the movie if you are paying attention. it is supposed to represent the way driver is always going to be a bad guy instead of the real hero he wants to be. both serve as a visual representation, especially the elevator scene, of the old fable about a scorpion and a frog. where the scorpion says he needs to cross a stream and he will ride the frog, the frog says he will sting him. but the scorpion reply's, if i do we would both drown. so they cross the stream, but halfway the the scorpion stings the frog and as they drown the frog asks why, the scorpion simply says, it is in my nature to do so. this is the story of the driver where he is the scorpion and Irene is the frog. the gore is his sting, when he finally cracks he drowns.
and thats why i love this movie so much