Drive

Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis's 2005 novel of the same name. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. The film co-stars Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks.

Plot
This action drama follows a mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set up a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves.

Why It'll Drive You Crazy

 * 1) It may look like an action movie, but it is actually a character study of how one's actions can be morally grey and can affect the people around or himself/herself, sometimes very negatively.
 * 2) The neo-noir style is on point.
 * 3) Fantastic direction from Nicolas Winding Refn.
 * 4) Beautiful cinematography.
 * 5) The Driver is an awesome and badass character. His outfit is also great, let alone, how he sees himself. A superhero in his own movie.
 * 6) The pacing may be slow, but not to the point where it's boring or dull. Unlike films with mh:awfulmovies:Things Heard and Seen, or mh:awfulmovies:Wonder Woman 1984 where both films used too much exposition without moving the plot forward, give character development or subtlety, Drive uses that slow pacing and subtlety to flesh out the main two leads, bringing the joy to the protagonist, and humanizing him before he discovers the worst that are going to happen to the family he's been with.
 * 7) Great acting from Ryan Gosling, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Ron Pearlman.
 * 8) Well-written characters, as the driver. While he may not be the most expressive character in the movie, let alone very introverted and awkward, he is actually a morally grey character, and a psychotic person having and/or threatening to murder anyone who dare harm him or the family he spent time with. And even if he found out the woman he's in love with is already married, he still vows to respect the late husband's wishes by keeping her and their child safe from dangerous people, including himself.
 * 9) * Even just by the first ten minutes of the film, audiences hear no dialogue from the driver, yet they get to know all lot about him. Because according to Ryan Gosling himself, he knows the audience is pretty smart to understand a protagonist's side of the story.
 * 10) Great choice of music that represents the driver's personality, development, and intent.
 * 11) * A Real Hero by College ft. Electric Youth representing the driver as real human being as he spent time with the family. It also means that the driver actually sees himself as a hero, and a real human being, even up to the very end.
 * 12) Great action sequences.
 * 13) The iconic yet infamous scene in the movie: By the time the driver and Irene, alongside a hired killer go inside an elevator, then that said driver goes and kisses her right before he truly reveals who he really was in the inside by stomping and crushing on the hitman's skull. Resulting in Irene being terrified, and the driver slowly losing control of himself.
 * 14) "How about this: Shut your mouth, or I'll kick your teeth down your throat and I'll shut it for you"
 * 15) As stated in WIR #2, the movie sometimes uses the dialogue to add subtlety and meaning to the driver's character.
 * 16) * From the line of dialogue "You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river.", which actually means it's the scorpion's nature to kill its prey, and that scorpion is the driver himself, and the dead frog is Nino.
 * 17) The movie is also very tragic in the end. Even with the driver mercilessly killing Nino and Bernie in revenge, his most trusted friend is still dead, the trust from Irene is lost, and he had to move away from her and never be seen again.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) False Advertising: The trailers and some of the posters promoted the film as an intense action movie like Fast and Furious  or even an "arthouse Transporter" when it's actually a slow-paced drama thrilled in the end.
 * 2) As great as Ron Pearlman's acting is, the line delivery of his: "Now this...that is one motherfucking, fine-ass, pussy-mobile, motha-fucka! Damn!" sounded forced and trying too hard.

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