Worst (or one of) Movie of the Year

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2011)

This has to be one of the worst this year. After reading some of the other reviews I had to wonder just what movie did the other reviewers see OR do they just not get out that much OR have they never really seen a movie before.
I went to this movie thinking that it was a remake of the 1978 The Driver with Ryan O'Neal, which was just a great movie (which I'm going to have to purchase after seeing this lame want-to-be imitation, that didn't even come close).
To start:
The music was horrible and for the most part just drove me and my son to want to leave within the first 20 minutes. You know how you can sometimes tell how good (or how bad) a movie will be just by listening to the music in the opening (and throughout). Well this was clearly one of those movies. I stayed because of all of the great reviews on IMDb thinking that the move would redeem itself in the near future, but it never happened.
The cast was okay and their performances were, eh... But Gosling's character was for the most part a sociopath and was in NO WAY like the Steve McQueen characters of old. Very disappointed in the other reviews making this comparison as I am a huge McQueen fan. It just wasn't there.
The action:
There was none really. And there definitely was not any driving and what "was" there was very poor. I kept waiting on some cool chase scene or trick move that would happen and of the three driving scenes that I remember, but I think there were only two, they just fizzled. Nothing to watch there. Even the opening driving scene was just lame. Nothing cool. Nothing clever.
Do your self a favor and don't go and see this movie. Wait until it's out on DVD and rent it or wait for the TV version. You won't be missing anything.