More. More like this.

Great script. Great performances (Albert Brooks should have received an Oscar nod). Neo-noir.

We are introduced to Gosling, as our nameless protagonist, in the slick night of urban California where the pavement glows under neon lights and the spotlights of police helicopters. The hero is soft spoken, wearing a shiny vintage jacket without a hint of irony and boiling beneath the surface with the capability of unflinching psychotic violence. A film about the warmth found within such a person in a city where even litter is painted gold by the beauty of the setting sun.

Rewatch/ [Everything about this gels together perfectly. The cast, the soundtrack, the cinematography. Not a dull moment. I had no idea what this was about going in and was floored by it, they had to carry me out of the theater. Will most likely be the best film of 2011. ]

An ultra-stylish neo-noir with impeccably understated performances. Its explosive soundtrack adds a beautiful dimension to DRIVE. Each plot is paced to perfection. Certainly the best opening sequence of 2011; and one of the best of the last decade.

A kind of tribute to the action-thrillers of the late 80's and early 90's, with pulsating synthesizers, cool blues with neon highlights, Mistral font titles, subdued tones with bursts of stylized action, stoic protagonist who develops an unexpected love interest. It's all very Michael Mann. I'm not the biggest Mann fan but I found myself absorbed in the tension and rhythms of this film. It's a solid genre piece with no glaring flaws. Fantastic score and soundtrack. Nicely stylized, well crafted.

Simultaneously a glorious bath in the conventions of the 80's car action flick, and a relentless deconstruction of it, Nicolas Winding Refn crushes in his display of the three most important words in cinema: "Show, don't tell". Drive is the most beautifully ugly film of 2011.

10? Gener 2012 - Original: personatge intrigant, ben encarnat per Gosling, narrada amb personalitat, un paper singular de la música. Bon experiment.

Slick, edgey and stylish. Gosling's raw performance is captivating which then juxtaposes excellently to his brutal and visceral actions. Soundtrack is top notch as well. A real shame it hasn't really been noticed at the awards.

I bet I would look so cool in that jacket.

This is as pretentious & boring a movie as you could "wish" to find. After an excellent opening scene that builds tension without a word spoken, that same ploy is used throughout the entire film; no one answers anyone without a lingering (minimum) 10 sec. pause and slo-mo face turn, and it just becomes TEDIOUS. The plot is plain stupid, the music annoyingly irrelevant and intrusive, the direction over stylized and awkward. Mulligan & Gosling do OK with what they are given, but I just didnt care

The soundtrack and aesthetics are as handpicked as danish strawberries, and I will not refuse to sing its praises. However it does have its flaws - the plot is weak, not just minimalistic but bordeline holey at points, and there are a few dialogue moments that stick out like a splinter. But on the upside perhaps a lot more people will get around to seeing "Bronson" now.

A film-making exercise rather than a genre Crime film as people have described this to me. I can't help but feel people are over-rating it for the wrong reasons because of that, and under-rating it because of what it really is. If that doesn't make sense, I'm sorry, it is hard to explain.