If you read the disc breathless promotion, you may well be waiting for another part-Fast and the Furious romp. Fear not. This is actually the first movie, what I hope is a new wave of semi-thin films Arthouse petrosexual action.
The film is filled with great performances,(Ryan Gosling) is a specialist in Hollywood during the day, but earns extra money in the underworld of Los Angeles as a pilot trip. His new neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan) - a beautiful woman married to a mobster mother with one thing - start being chased by thugs "driver" steps in. but despite the heavyweights such as Bryan Cranston and Carey Mulligan in the cast are the greatest characters played by Gosling and Brooks. They are the real powers and I have to give Brooks his due. You've never seen him play a character like this before and it is huge, like a villain who is funny, smart, and utterly ruthless. In some ways, is the driver and Rose both sides of the same coin in terms of their personality and ethics, but it is a test for another time.
Many tests could be written to disk. It is the rare film where I would see him immediately, but I stop and scribble copious notes. So many great ideas swirling around hard-boiled detective story, and you can lose as dissecting a piece of nature, as a product of genre cinema, or even break the skills of filmmaking. Sometimes the visuals become evident only when the light goes off and the elevator operator and Irene had their first kiss. Other times, slip into when Irene tells the driver that her husband is out of jail, and we can see a red light reflected from their faces. Each shot is accurate and well done that you just want to make the film frame by frame and sit in awe.
I've been a fan since Refn see Pusher trilogy and Bronson, but his American debut is his strongest film yet. As he did with his previous films, it takes a simple type (in this case, a crime-action film) and twists its conventions and to rethink our options, and come away with a stunning reinvention. Drive is an exciting journey, where the tension is so raw and intense emotions.
