The Drive Of Your Life

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2011)

I understand that we are all different. But the hate disseminated about this film mystifies me.
Just awesome direction. The studio originally wanted this to be a Fast'n'Furious clone, then got Ryan Gosling on board, then he chose Refn. What we got is an real treasure.
Gosling is, yet again, amazing as the Driver. Sally Sparrow plays Irene, so good to see her breaking free of her small town roots. Plus, yet again, she hardly blinks.
The story is a big-screen classic. The relationship is believable. The violence is shocking and unpredictable. The score is marvellous. Albert Brooks is a terrifying revelation.
Look, give it a chance, it just might surprise you and you, yourself, might well find yourself on this cursed site, at a ridiculous hour of the morning, spewing forth about marvellous this, believable that, shocking blah blah.
But for me, 10/10. Film of the year. Maybe the decade.