drive

I saw Drive a few days back, and it wasn't at all what I was expecting. I thought it would be a lot more action packed and kinetic, but instead it was actually very deliberate and moody, maybe a tad too deliberate and moody even for my taste. Some teenage girl in the middle of the screening said out loud of Ryan Gosling's Driver, "He's a weirdo." Yup, I most definitely agree, but whereas she meant this as a put-down, I smiled at how odd he was. I love my anti-heroes, particularly when they wear a cool-as-hell satin jacket and leather gloves and they are played by cooler-than-school Ryan Gosling and they drive around to a Miami Vice-cool, Eighties-inspired electronica soundtrack. Drive is not a crowd pleaser at all, but it's most definitely inspired film making. B+