quiet, slick and smouldering

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2012)

This film is brilliant. It's quiet, powerful, dark, slick and really understated, not coming across as a massive blockbuster. Gosling, yet again, smoulders - he really is an incredible actor. Not much dialogue but the quietness and minimalism of the Direction, is brilliant. A bit gory, but it's all so well done and not excessive. Something you could watch again and again for the atmospherics alone. Bryan Cranston was good (always), and the soundtrack rather mellow to contrast what is on the screen. Cliffhanger ending, love it. If you insist on your films having special effects, prattle, flashes and bangs and whistles, don't bother. Sexy. The elevator scene... Woh! 8/10