Movie Tuesday: Drive

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Hey everyone, and welcome to Movie Tuesday, a new series of movie reviews on popular (or not!) movies. This weeks edition is Drive, an artistic film starring Ryan Gosling as (according to IMDB) a 'mysterious Hollywood Stuntman.'

This is one movie I'm not going to sugarcoat.

Drive was somehow boring, and too violent at the same time. I'm not one to dislike violence in a movie; Fury was pretty enjoyable, and you see half a face sitting inside a tank in one of the first few scenes. However, Drive took this to the next level with a scene consisting of Ryan Gosling kicking in someone's head in an elevator for what felt like an hour.

Besides just being...violent, to say the least, it was also immensely boring. I zoned out sometime in the middle, and had to look up the synopsis afterwards. (Which happened to not sound anything like what I had seen.)

The filmography only emphasized this. The characters were too quiet, the actors showed no emotion (Besides the horrified expression of Irene throughout the entire movie)  despite Carey Mulligan's stellar performance in Never Let Me Go, a film adapted from the book by Kazuo Ishiguro. The constant color-correction (every scene is a new color!) just goes to show how it was meant as a crowd pleaser.

I did however, enjoy the - theme? - of the movie, or at least the subject matter. Crime is generally a good start to a film, however, the realism of this movie went too far. It seemed so real, it wasn't real at all anymore. (Sort of like uncanny valley.)

In my opinion, a movie should have a little bit of every genre. Drive could have been the gritty and dark indie film it was, while retaining some properties of adventure, or maybe even, dare I say it, a joke.

All in all, Drive was trying to be an artsy, deep movie, and they got artsy down, they just forgot to give it an actual message. That being said, I rate it...

3/10 Not Faboo

Regardless, my Movie Tuesday reviews are a work of opinion. A person could very well appreciate this movie much more than I, and like it for the reasons I dislike it.

Have you seen Drive? What's your opinion on the movie, Love it, Hate it, In-between? Disagree with this review? What movie should be reviewed next? Tell us below in the comments, and as always, have a so super faboo day!