Certainly not rated "8".

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2012)

I really have a hard time, in this day and age, when technical details are just ignored and the audience is left to put up with what's left. Case in point: In the beginning, the driver is given a Chevrolet Impala. No manual transmission Impalas have been built for decades. Yet, we are asked to suspend disbelief and, listening to the sound track while the Impala is being driven hard, presume the trans is a manual.
While it is true that an Impala can be jury-rigged with a manual transmission, we aren't given any indication that this is the case.
Similarly, when the car is a Mustang GT 5.0, at the 53 minute mark, a quick glimpse is given of the trans shifter on the console. Again, an automatic. Yet, the sound track, again, is filled with the noise of a manual trans car being driven hard.
Ryan Gosling is great as the "Very Little to Say" good guy. Carey Mulligan plays her role well, though the relationship between her character and her husband, just returned from a stretch in prison, is ill-defined and left for conjecture.
A good movie, not an "8" by any means, but, all in all, if the problems with the sound issue are ignored, a good watch.