Wonderful, gritty, pretty, discomforting. It's a beautifully created film where each moment is engineered artfully. It's not an anally manicured film. There's a simple, non-exaggerated dreamlike quality to the whole production. Still, when the story heads into nightmare territory, the style remains constant. While the violence can be startling, I felt the appropriate cringe for the first time in a long time. My connection to these characters, in spite of their quiet nature, was deep enough to instinctively empathize with the danger. It's a flashy brilliant piece of pulp.
"'Drive' looks like one kind of movie in the ads, and it is that kind of movie. It is also a rebuke to most of the movies it looks like." - Roger Ebert
Filmspotting's Thoughts
****1/2
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