2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

antogilio Drive is neither a bad movie nor a good one. Actually I don't know what to think about it. We can't say it's an action movie bacause if it was so, we should admit it's a bad one because the plot is not sophisticated. It's not even a love movie, because even if Carey Mulligan's and Ryan Gosling's characters kinda fell in love, we can't see the development of a love story, but just a little bit of it. Beside everything said until now, the saddest thing of the movie is the fact that you don't emphasize with the characters that seems to be really far from the audience.

johnsone-5 Here's a dreary drive through dystopia, showing life really is meaningless. The first act is slow. The second act is slower, with intermittent violence. With everything falling apart in the third act. Replete with onui, malaise, and angst, this film is sure to be a delight for the postmodernists among us.

barteknittner Opening scenes are great. The car case and all of this was awesome. Then we are introduced to a women character who isn't the greatest. The scenes with here are lame. Villains in this movie cures a lot for nothing. I didn't felt scared. Yeah it's a movie that you can pass watching.

classicsoncall Despite the title, the film is not primarily about fast cars and high speed chase scenes. Ryan Gosling's no-name character is a combination mechanic/driver/stunt man with an unacknowledged shady past, and you get the idea that he wants to go straight but hasn't had the opportunity yet. Meeting his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) just might be the ticket, but her ex-con husband is something of an obstacle when he's released from prison. With the stars unaligned for for our complicatedly ambiguous hero, the story is set to go in unexpected directions. I thought the chemistry between Irene and Driver was well played without compromising her marriage in an overt way. When Standard (Oscar Isaac) got whacked, I thought it was just a bit too convenient way for the attractive couple to get together, but the story wisely took things in a different direction. To my way of thinking, I don't think Irene would have made a wise decision casting her future with Driver anyway, that scene of Driver cracking open the guy's head in the elevator wasn't exactly the mark of someone with a lot of compassion if things went against him.I thought about all those long, slow frames of Gosling with his emotionless expression and I think it worked well for the character. It gives you time to wonder what he was thinking in a given situation, and he seemed to have a lot of those. The few good action sequences of Driver actually driving are well done, but that's not the reason to see the movie. Tune in for an effective neo-noir character study of a man on a mission, who if this was a Western, winds up riding off into the sunset, alone and undeterred seeking a destiny he might never find.