A review by a girl.

Rating: 6/10 (16 September 2011)

I normally don't write reviews, but after seeing this disaster of a film I felt inclined to advise other people not to spend their money. First of all, this movie is not at all what it is portrayed to be in the previews. In the beginning few minutes they make you think its going to be action packed and awesome by showing a cool heist, and then they move on to 45 minutes of silent awkwardness and long gazes while the characters establish some sort of messed up love connection. Also, as I saw other people commenting on, the music is terrible, unnecessary, and LOUD... it's kind of ridiculous. Once you finally get to the violence it gets REALLY violent, which Im a fan of, but I laughed out loud when they showed the dudes face smashed in and how the girl reacted. I felt kind of terrible, but it was just over the top. If the movie started where it got violent and went from there I think I would have actually liked it.
I was kind of confused with the "80's" theme... there were newer cars in there like the impala, mustang and 300. If you want it to be 80's go all out 80's not some weird mixture that just doesn't make any sense. Man, I was just really disappointed... I wanted to see some fast paced heist movie and I got this weird, awkward, quiet, blah movie. The only reason I give this a 6 is because I was happy to look at Ryan Gosling's sexy face for an hour and a half... even if he isn't saying anything.