Reviews

Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman and mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver, but whose real dream is to become a professional stock car driver.

The film has turned out to be resistant to modern techniques of film criticism.

A film about a getaway driver that has quite a few fun scenes, a decent amount of action, and some serious moments to drive the story forward.

Drive had been shown at a number of film festivals, including the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was praised and received a standing ovation,

There's a driving sequence near the beginning of the film shot almost entirely from the inside of the car that completely blew my mind and was instantly one of my favorite scenes in any film.

It felt from the very start like a modern-day Taxi Driver, and certainly has some notable parallels with that film that extend far beyond simply the title - the taciturn, solitary protagonist whom we don't know much about, who isn't really expanded upon as a character; the big-city location; the dri...

Ryan Gosling plays The Drivers strong and silent type perfectly and with the scorpion embalmed jacket he evokes the use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.

A line I often see mentioned with the film is its tag line There are no clean getaways and that is certainly the most appropriate description of what unfolds as the Driver sees himself become head-hunted by criminal bosses Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) and Nino (Ron Perlman), the film is ultra-viol...

[i]Drive[/i] is about male beauty. The movie is really a woman's movie disguised as a rough and dirty violence and cars male movie.

Now from that brief plot line, you may think this film isn't about much, but this film is incredibly more than that, and its all because of its soundtrack and cinematography that make this film feel fresh and new at the same time.