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Rating: 1/10 (10 February 2012)

This movie is the epitome of showing the entire movie in a 2:30 trailer. I don't mind when a movie is not exactly as portrayed in the trailer but this is ridiculous. The movie had no script, no character development and it portrayed Ryan Gosling as a bad ass driver that took jobs driving criminals while they were in the process of committing a crime. I'm not even sure a stunt driver was required for any part of the movie. There were very few, if any, overhead shots of the stunt driving there was nothing special about any of it.
At best this was a B budget movie with some big names and "interesting" camera views and soundtrack. The interesting camera views can be summarized by something a high school film producer would use. I didn't find anything interesting about this movie and only kept watching because it got such great reviews. Gratuitous violence does not make great a movie, that was poorly written.
The best analogy that I can make is to equate Drive's high ratings to "The Hurt Locker" winning the academy award against Avatar. Don't get me wring I think Avatar is Fern Gully for adults, but how did the highest grossing movie of all time lose against a movie that wasn't even in "theaters everywhere?" Putting a pretty bow on a pile of crap doesn't mean I want it. Apparently +100,000 others do but you're not pulling the wool over my eyes.