Drive
Synopsis:
The movie stated with a driver (Ryan Gosling) who was a professional getaway driver for people who wanted to rob and make a getaway from police. The driver policy is he will give anyone of them a 5 minutes window for them to rob and get into his car. Once inside his car, he is responsible for them and will help them escape from police and then split up. He never works with the same customer twice in order not to get suspicious by the police. He also works in as a stunt-double in movies and mechanic in a garage own by Shannon (Bryan Cranston). The story is simple where the driver who lives in an apartment, began to get close to his neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her son, Benicio (Kaden Leos) as Irene's husband, Standard (Oscar Issac) is in prison. When he got out from prison, the driver began to see how much Standard cares about Irene and his son and began to step away. When he saw some thugs beating Standard in the car parking lot and threaten his family, he offers to help by becoming a gateway driver for Standard who is forced to rob a pawn shop. However, the robbery didn't go as plan when Standard was shot and killed while the driver and another accomplice, Blanche (Christina Hendricks) was chased upon by a mysterious driver from the pawn shop. Driver managed to outrun the mysterious driver and quickly piece the puzzle together to find out that a Jewish mobster, Nino (Ron Perlman) is the person behind this deal. Nino found out that some mobsters are going to start up a business in their area and reported that US$1million will be used as a start-up with the money safe keeping in a pawn shop. So, he plan to stage a dummy robbery to steal the US$1million and then rip-off Standard by killing him off and his family. While Nino is killing off all the people related to the robbery such as Shannon,driver began on a course for destruction by killing off Nino in the process and set-up a meeting with Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks), business partner of Nino to return back the US$1million in return for the safety of Irene and Benicio. However, Bernie stab driver while driver kills Bernie and abandon the US$1million beside him. Before the movie ends, the driver is shown driving around in a new place while never looking back for Irene and Benicio.
Review:
There are some plus points and some weak points in this movie. The plus points are: (1) Cinematography- I kinda like the cinematography look of this film, i felt that the violence and action sequence is beautifully shot in this movie with some slow-motion shot, the use of the lighting to focus on the a particular sequence. (2) The opening sequence of the movie is nicely shot and we can almost felt the anxiety of the driver and his passenger escaping from police. I don't think that i have experience such feeling before. It was beautifully shot. (3) The music sequence is also nicely done to display the atmosphere and mood of LA. Weak Points are: (1) The story is quite predictable and nothing to shout about. (2) The acting are okay at times, but i guess i wanted more from Ryan Gosling's facial expression other than to always gives a smirk on his face. Overall, the movie is a decent movie with just slightly above average due to its cinematography looks.
Verdict:
I give this a 3 star out of 5.
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