Starts strong, then tapers off

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2014)

The film starts off strong with a cleaver escapade, then a false teaser about the driver's main profession, but then the story starts to drag. There are long brooding scenes then moments of Sam Peckinpah style violence.
The main character doesn't have much emotional range, perhaps this is done as a means to justify and explain his contemplative nature. The effect however loses something as it gives the character a somewhat flat performance. Given that The Driver character is initially set up as a clever get-away driver for hire, as the story progresses it doesn't make much sense that he would risk everything to help out some ex con who he barely knows and in whom he has no vested interest.
It's not the worst movie that I've ever sat through, but is surprises me that it was rated as highly as it was.