Drive

Drive

                Ryan Gosling stars as a stunt man by day and getaway driver by night.  He does this and gets along just fine until he befriends he next door neighbor Irene and her son Benicio.  Everything is fine until her husband gets out of jail and Driver, that’s what the credits call him, has to help him with a heist to repay some men from his time in prison.  Of course everything goes wrong and graphic violence and crazy amount s of blood ensue as Driver tries his best to protect Irene and Benicio at all costs .

                The movie had a good story with a decent amount of action mixed in.  It was not a high speed chase every five seconds like you would expect with a movie called drive, in fact there was very little driving involved.  So this is not a movie for guys who want to see good looking cars going really fast.  If that’s what you want get the Transporter.  The acting was very good Ryan Gosling was just excellent as the main character.  He was this quiet man that his boss just called the kid, yet when it came time to throw down he was kicking ass and taking names.  I was pretty disappointed that they did not do more of a back story on him so you could find out about his past and how he came to be this way.  I guess that is the fun of the movie for some people because they get to make up their own back story.  As far as other actors go Bryan Cranston was good as his boss Shannon, and Carrie Mulligan did a nice job playing his conflicted neighbor Irene.   I will also give and acting shout out to Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman for playing the wise guys in the movie.

                I overall liked the movie it was not what I expected for the first hour and then it was exactly what I had heard it was which was pretty graphically violent.  I recommend this movie to most guys who like action movies especially actions movies with and actual story to them.

I give Drive 3 out of 5 paw prints, good but not great.

My next review will be over the 2011 dark comedy/drama 50/50

 As always” You don’t have to go home but, you have to get the hell out of here”