Drive. Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan star in this movie. Two up and coming young movie stars surrounded by veteran actors such as Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman. The movie follows the Driver (Ryan Gosling) who has three jobs: movie stunt driver, mechanic and he drives criminals to and from their crime scenes. Yep, this movie focuses on the shady side of Los Angeles. But our Driver does have a heart and he falls in love with his next door neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). A slight problem with this is that she's married and her husband is getting out of jail. When the husband returns home, he runs into some trouble with folks who provided him protection in prison. He recruits the Driver to help him steal some money. And that's where things fall apart.
This movie might sound like a Fast and Furious inspired movie, but if so it is a Fast and Furious movie taken down a number of notches. I enjoyed the fact that it developed a story. Here's the problem: the violence. It isn't that I'm against violence in movies. It is the fact that the violence almost had a cartoon-ish feel to it. The slashing of someone with a knife felt like I was watching a Simpsons episode. If you can put that aside, which I did, I highly recommend it. And the soundtrack, lovely.
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