not worth the drive to the cinema

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2011)

I had high expectations of this movie, even talked my wife and adult daughter into watching it too. Actually that wasn't very difficult when I mentioned that Ryan Gosling was in it...they both seemed REALLY interested all of a sudden. Both had recently seen crazy stupid love and were fans of his 'work' there. So what went wrong with Drive? Well a combination of things really, including but not limited to:  Lack of interesting plot  Gratuitous violence that even Tarantino would find disturbing  Gosling's character being undeveloped, his motives unexplained and his behaviour erratic  Disjointed nature of the storyline – the husband? What's his story? Why was he in jail?  Great actors used poorly All in all pretty disappointing really and certainly not worth the hype. How on earth is this movie averaging 8.3! Gotta be studio execs voting 2000 times each surely?