Drive (2011)

	Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action/Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Drive RUNNING TIME 100 minutes
	Produced by: Michel Litvak John Palermo Marc Platt Gigi Pritzker Adam Siegel
	Written by (based on Drive by James Sallis): Hossein Amini

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Driver	Ryan Gosling
Irene	Carey Mulligan
Shannon	Bryan Cranston
Bernie Rose	Albert Brooks
Standard Gabriel	Oscar Isaac
Blanche	Christina Hendricks	-
Nino	Ron Perlman	½
Benicio	Kaden Leos	-
Cook	James Biberi	-

Review

Nicolas Winding Refn cooks up a cold, minimalist atmosphere with an increasing amount of tension in this timeless action-drama in the mold of Walter Hill’s classic The Driver. Derivative it may be, with its 1970s bleakness and nostalgia, and yet the film feels pulsatingly immediate and crisp, elevated by Winding Refn’s ability to capture the physicality of the world he creates. The human aspects of the story are palpable, though they require your patience, because the characters are watchful, uncommunicative beings with a hard-fought realisation that too much openness can be fatal for them. None more so than The Driver, played with rugged intuition by Ryan Gosling. The bleak electronic score by Cliff Martinez adds to the effect.