Drive

2011 • 100 minutes

About this movie

DRIVE is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best.

Ratings and reviews

In danger of seeming a little style-over-substance, Drive dodges the pitfalls admirably and delivers a beautifully stylized, neon-noir thriller with all the exhilaration and character driven panache of all the films it sets out to pay homage to. Perfectly paced and shot with genuine virtuosity, it's an absolute triumph of a film. Gosling simmers as the monosyllabic anti-hero and immediately jumps to the top ten depictions of cool in cinema, and the rest of the cast are none to shoddy; each one catches every beat exactly on the money. Explicit and violent at times, but never crass and voyeuristic, Drive is peppered with extreme realism, delivered in the same stylized fashion that drives home (pun intended) the emotional punches that get thrown. This is a modern classic, and perhaps even a masterpiece.

one of my favourite movies of all time. the first time I watches it i thought it was good. Then i was thinking about it all the next day and wanted to watch it again. i have now brought it on DVD, Download and Blu-ray. I watch it regularly. Its not meant to be an action film. Its about the relationship between the characters and tence atmosphere, with brutal violence thrown in every now and again. For those warching it wanting an action movie, the trailer gave that impression but its wrong.

I really love this film, definitely one of my favourites. I bought blu ray disk and digital copy lel. It's a shame the soundtrack isn't available as a digital download on the Google music store though :( Fantastic film though, love Ryan Gosling in this