Are You Ready to Drive?

Rating: 9/10 (12 July 2012)

Are you ready to Drive? (SPOILERS!)
Drive is a documentary about a stunt car driver named Ryan Gosling, you might know Gosling from his other documentaries The Notebook and Half Nelson. Ryan has been through his ups and downs from losing his parents to Alzheimers in The Notebook to becoming addicted to crack in Half Nelson.
I was really looking forward to seeing Ryan succeed in his new career as a race car driver. It was good to see that the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle has settled into a nice career as a mechanic, I was however troubled to know that he had turned to a life a crime, I guess the checks stopped coming from Malcolm. The Scout from The Scout stopped scouting baseball and has turned to scouting race car drivers now and running a racing team, I guess Steinbrenner had finally given him that promotion he had been looking for.
The real star of Drive is the Mexican family that lives next door to Ryan, Standard his daughter Irene and her little half brother Benecio. A part of me was hoping to find out what had happened to Irene and Benecio's mothers but before I could ask the question Standard was holding up a pawn shop with some Firecrotch.
Ryan is a really quiet dude who loves to blast Electronica music,tour around LA and eat at Denny's. But once Standard takes a dirt nap its up to Ryan to protect his kids, enter Ryan Bourne! Ryan then goes on a rampage like no other, between eating Denny's and stunt driving Ryan has learned 11 types of martial arts,, which he uses to his advantage. Ryan and his buddies also like to joke around, at one point one of his oldest friends comes up to him at Denny's and Ryan says he better shut his mouth or he will shut it for him, classic!
Nicolas Winding Refn has directed some fantastic documentaries before including Bronson and the Pusher trilogy. He also went back in time somehow to the year 1000AD and directed a documentary about a mute warrior. Fantastic stuff!
All in all I would say Drive is worth your time, even though they forgot to record sound for the first half of the documentary. I would give it 9.5 crushed skulls out of 10 crushed skulls, the 0.5 point missing being for a lack of money shots.