From nice guy to mass murderer in thirty minutes flat.

Rating: 3/10 (6 June 2013)

I can only conjecture from the extremely inflated ratings on this movie that Ryan Gosling is some sort of teenage heartthrob. Really, people think that this is an excellent film?
To me, it views like a cross between Fargo and Friday the Thirteenth. Ryan Gosling is the strong, brooding silent type, and he gets involved with a bunch of losers. Only a woman with whom he never really has a relationship (???--unclear) has the power to cause him to renounce his "code" of "drive only: no weapons or violence". No one, however, not even a cute as a high school prom queen single mother whose husband is in prison, can get him to drop the soggy toothpick. At one point, he stows it behind his ear. No, I am not kidding.
I laughed through the vicious killing spree and marveled at the "creative" use of all manner of implements of homicide. There must be something seriously wrong with our culture if people regard this sort of pastiche of extreme violence as entertaining or interesting or ... anything.