A real hero....A real human being??

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2013)

Gosling distances himself from the pack of young leading men with a performance of subtlety and debth.Clearly channeling McQueen's less is more philosophy he excels in both the sensitive scenes and the skull cracking action.The supporting cast is uniformely excellent.Carey Mulligan is heartbreakingly luminous as the love interest while Albert Brooks damn near steals the show as the reptillian gangster Bernie Rose.Cranston is superb in the role of the perenial loser as is Pearlman as the slime-bag hood Nino.The tender love story and the brutal crime drama complement each other well and will have viewers gripped till the final scene.But all things considered it's Goslings movie-doing to the competition what the driver does to the hit-man in the by now infamous elevator scene.