Drive review

Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, a dude who, according to IMDb, has been in a lot of other stuff before despite my having never heard of his ass, came out, last year, in 2011. Look back at that sentence. There are seven commas in it. Deal with it.

So plot run-down,
Gosling plays a nameless individual know only as driver, who, you'll never guess this, You guessed it? How did you know he was a driver? Fuck. Well there goes the whole plan I had for the rest of this post. I was gonna tease you about and drop subtle hits then reveal that at the very end. Well...... damn it. Uhh.... something to say something to say. Wah? Plot run down? Oh yeah.Gosling is a stunt driver for movies but apparently that doesn't pay enough cause he's also a mechanic. But apparently those jobs together still don't pay enough, dude must have some expensive tastes, cause he's also also a get-away driver.

Anyway one of the jobs he's on predictably goes south and he ends up caught between a bunch of pissed of crooks and has to get him, the girl, and the girl's child out safely.

So is it good? Yeah it's pretty decent. It's not outstanding but it has a couple big points in it's favor. The first of these is Gosling's character. I loved his character. He spoke in facts. He told you how things were, what things would happen, and what things wouldn't. And that's how things were. The other point in the movies favor is that the violence, is well, really violent. I can't really give any examples without some levle of spoiler but let me say this, there's two ways to be over-the-top violent, such to the point I would even bring it up. Way one: Mortal Kombat and the death's of vampires in Tru Blood are good anagrams for this. It's just really really really messy. You know Mortal Kombat and I'm willing to bet you've seen the imagie of Sub-Zero holding his opponents skull spine still attached high up in that air to celebrate his victory. If you, some fucking how, don't open another tab and take two seconds to Google it. And for those of you who haven't seen tru blood, you're not missing much. But when a vampire dies, it's like you popped a giant vampire-sized bag full of nothing but blood and a few stringy bits. This type of violence really does not leave an impression, for a moment you go "Oh my" Then it's over and you forget and don't care. This is for the fourteen year old who thinks amount of blood on screen is directly correlated to the enjoyment he should be having. The violence in Drive isn't like that. When people die, It actually seems like their body had some semblance of resistance. Especially the elevator scene. You watch the movie you'll know what I'm talking about.

7.5 bald plastic head covers so my hair doesn't catch on fire during this car crash out of 10.