Drive

Drive is one cool film, with it starring one of the coolest actors in all of Hollywood.  After watching this movie I might have little bit of a man crush on Ryan Gosling.  Not only is this film sexy and cool, it is very disturbing in the way it shows violence.  However that is expected, since this is directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.  The film also features Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, and Albert Brooks.

Drive is about a stunt car driver with no name, who also moonlights as a getaway driver.  The driver begins to come interested in his neighbor girl and her son.  He ends trying to take a job after the family is threaten by gangsters.  Generally in caper films the job always makes a turn for the worst, which happens here.  The film then turns toward the ultra-violence and becomes one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen.

Now drive is not meant for everyone and it is not that mainstream action film that they have been trying to market as.  However the film had me going throughout the hole thing.  There are shots here that are so surreal still playing in my head.  The film opens up with one of the greatest car chases I have ever seen.  Probably the best one since The French Connection.  I loved the 80ish synthesize soundtrack.  Albert Brooks is also amazing in this.  He plays one charming, but then turns to a real disgusting gangster.  This is probably the best film of the year so far, and I definitely reccomend this to any film lover.

Rating = 95%