Each scene was like a painting. From the placement of the actors to the lighting to the very still and cold demeanor of the characters, this film spoke to me as more of an art piece than your average crime, drama. Fantastic film, love all of Refn's work.

Ryan Gosling and Director Nicholas Winding Refn are in for a career best piece of masterwork in "Drive!" It is an absolute genre-defining masterpiece, offering limitless set pieces, character development and gritty action. Also, a classy soundtrack and heartfelt presence. Without giving too much away, Ryan Gosling is a Hollywood stunt performer credited as 'Driver.' He is a jaw-dropping presence in the movie, as the main storyline goes into play. With a great performance from supporting leads: Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks, the main plot includes a failed heist and subsequent actions leading to gritty circumstances. Ryan Gosling's mysterious 'Driver' steals the show with his unique portrayal and set of skills.The relationship between Gosling and Mulligan is so melodramatic, especially with his connection to her young son. Though Gosling's gritty approach of his role suggests 'Driver' has a dark and sufferable past, it is seemingly not enough to secure a relationship between the pair - especially when Gosling has one last up front score to settle with villainous mobster Albert Brooks. Nicholas Winding Refn offers a lot of magnificent attributes to being an achievable filmmaker here. He accomplishes this by delivering a unique, questionable, intense and gritty action thriller that will leave audiences on the edge of their seat.

Another crappy movie I remember watching at the cinema some years ago. I think it was 2011. Weak acting, no plot, weak characters, boring movie. I have been working all my life in television, translating movies. I don't want to be mean, but I think people that gave this movie above 7 or 8, must be stupid and shouldn't be allowed to rate movies. I have watched great movies from The Godfather to Scent Of A Woman to U-Turn by the great Oliver Stone. This movie does not deserve the rating it has. It shouldn't have a higher rating than Leon, like somebody else said it.

Nicolas Winding Refn's calmly tender yet explosively violent crime thriller never conforms to its genre, instead self-assuredly bending it to fit its stoic story while perhaps somewhat stubbornly maintaining its relatively laid-back pace and less-is-more mentality, and it's undoubtedly a much more memorably nuanced affair because of it. While The Driver himself may seem somewhat of a blank slate, he's actually an incredibly deep character who's lack of overt outward expression is matched by an interior complexity rarely seen in pictures of this kind (if any) and it's his unspoken connection to the other characters that roots him deep within his newfound reality, while establishing his longing to escape the criminal world he has unwillingly come to call his home. His brutality is presented in an honestly visceral way that refreshingly shows the consequences of such actions and never condones them even if they ultimately save the people that the protagonist cares the most deeply about. 7/10