The coolest movie in many, many years

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2011)

I've been expecting this movie for some time, since I've known the previous work of Nicolas Refn, specially the bizarre BRONSON. I had some high hopes for this title and was afraid of getting disappointed. Luckily, DRIVE was everything I expected and much more. The plot is simple, but great movies often are. What matters here is the way the story is told, and DRIVE has a firm, creative and talented storyteller in Refn. To help him in his endeavor, the cast is simply brilliant. The "coolness" of the movie is distributed among its soundtrack, colors and shots that directly take you to the 80's and the number of elements that could easily become collectibles - from the cars to the scorpio jacket. Thinking about the movie (what I haven't stopped doing since I watched it three days ago), I got to the conclusion that if David Cronenberg made a movie with Steve McQueen, it would be DRIVE. To me, it can't get cooler than that.