The Best movie I saw all year

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2011)

This movie is easily the best thing I saw the entire year. Everything about it from the score, to the performances, to the soundtrack, direction, cinematography was stellar.
Ryan Gosling gives a career best performance, as a man of few words, whose actions speak volumes. The rest of the cast is also stellar, from Christina Hendricks, to Bryan Cranston.
It is a fairly simple story of a stunt car driver who agrees to help out an ex-con, but in the process ends up offending some very bad people. Of course in helping out the ex-con as is often the case in seedy crime films, things go anything but according to plan. From there it changes into a story of vengeance, with scenes of intense violence, that never felt false. It is hard to stomach in parts, but I never found it gratuitous.
If you are a fan of movies, you can't help but enjoy this film.