Good art-house action flick

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2012)

Ryan Gosling stars in and delivers a great performance about a guy who's a Hollywood stunt driver who also moonlights as a wheelman. Gosling transforms himself over the course of the movie from a silent character to a stone cold killer.
The filmmaking is top-notch throughout. There is an exquisite use of light, shadows, neon shadings, and arresting street level views of Los Angeles which make the visual appearance of the film quite spectacular. The use of the soundtrack is done very well and does a lot of interesting choices and not your usual macho balls to the wall style music you would expect from a movie like this.
Albert Brooks, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston and Christina Hendricks round out the very talented cast.