Drive Movie Review

Drive is a slow paced drama about a man, Ryan Gosling, who is a stunt driver for the movies during the day and a get away driver at night. The Film is very much a gangster film, but the car chases were fully invigorating making me recall the original Gone in 60 Seconds. I found my self at the edge of my seat for most of the film, the director Nicolas Winding Refn does an amazing job with pacing for the film. Before watching it I had heard a few things about the film like that it had an off pacing and that shots held for too long on certain characters. I felt in a contrary manner to this idea. I felt that the pacing helped escalate the drama of the situations to such tense points. There are also a few interesting parts that i felt modernized the car chase genre. The scene where Goslings character is about to kill one of the main bosses with his car is visually engaging and the pacing helps to give the film the extra feel of brash violence that the film has. Over all the cinematography was beautiful and the lighting design brought the acting to another level. The dirty feel and the pacing really made this film for me. This will definitively be one of the films I will be watching for consideration of my project.