Review of Drive (2011) by Keith M — 16 Jun 2017

This is not a masterpiece. This movie wants to earn the title of being a film, but fails on every level of bringing that to you. Firstly, I would like to say that I was not expecting a Fast and Furious style movie from this, nor did I want it. I hate all the F&F movies. But I was expecting a near perfect made movie, though I didn't go in certain I would love the movie. Drive turned out to be a overhyped wanna be mix of action heist film and an arthouse film. The acting is good, but nowhere near Oscar worthy like people try to say it is. The plot is cliche with nothing that is truly unpredictable, and tries to throw things into the story that just felt like the studio saying "yeah, this scene will really look good in the marketing campaign when we mismarket this." The worst part are the completely uneven tones, that go from family drama at one point, to Ryan Gosling beating the shit out of a guy in another, that is so Tarantino style bloody that it is very offputing.

Overall Drive is okay, but it is an extreme let down after seeing multiple people call it "A masterpiece of film", which it definitely is not.