Nocturnal Release: Drive

I picked up Drive last night on Blu-Ray. Damn I love the 80's. While watching it with my friend, she originally had thought that the film took place in the 80's due to the soundtrack. Now if you haven't noticed a recurring trend in my articles I love two things in movies: score/soundtrack and the 80's. Well, the 80's isn't really something that I look for, but I just had to reiterate.  

The movie is very slow paced, and it isn't filled with a massive amount of driving, so if you think that this is another Fast Five then you're dead wrong. The marketing of this movie can be a little deceiving. When I saw this in theaters, a few people in the audience weren't too pleased, but if you aren't pleased with this movie then you might have missed the point.

Ryan Gosling has been known better for being eye candy in a bunch of sappy romantic films. This movie showed him curb stomping a hit-man in an elevator and making his face into a potato latka. Just dropping fools at the drop of the hat is NOT the Ryan Gosling that the ladies know and swoon over, which made this movie all the better. After he squashed the beejezus out of that goon, I could have sworn he was gonna make that iconic Bruce Lee face after he greased somebody

                                                             Mudhole in the face....IN THE FACE!

The movie takes a drastic, violent turn towards the latter half of the movie, which really surprised me. I was taken along for this smooth, cool ride that ended up becoming a dark tale. I love that about this movie. I don't like to be able to predict what is going to happen before it happens. I want something fresh, something new. And this movie delivered. Like this movie for what it is, don't hate it for what you want it to be.