Why did this movie get such good reviews??

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 2012)

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS
I don't understand why this movie got such good reviews, at the beginning it was promising, I was actually excited to see it. It seemed like a good enough plot, a driver for movies moonlights as a getaway driver.. Pretty cool, I thought . Right after the beginning, things went downhill... Quickly. First of all Ryan Gosling is such a good actor, but the script made him an awkward mess. He had a strange obsession with his neighbor but he never talked to her! And when they did end up talking, it was so incredibly painful it was comical. Everyone in the movie theater I was in burst out laughing in these awkward scenes. Another completely strange plot twist was that all of the sudden Ryan Goslings character could fight and became increasingly over-violent. Like when he stomps on the guys head in the elevator, over and over and over and over. The people in my theater were laughing in a- enough-already kind of way and someone actually yelled "I think he's dead!" which caused more laughing. Even with serious content, I laughed more at this movie than I should have. It was astoundingly ridiculous.