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Drive

There are no clean getaways.

Nothing like a good car to pick up chicks ...

This well-decorated and rated action thriller happily straddles both the popular and art-house genres. A quiet young man lives to drive, racing and doing stunts by day and driving getaway cars for crooks at night. Things get interesting when he becomes involved with the young woman next door, but when her husband is released from jail, they set off down a path which leads to violence and complications that none of them were expecting.

101 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Nudity, Violence)
Crime, Drama, Thriller, On the art circuit

Credits

Cast

Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman

Director

Nicolas Winding Refn

Screenplay

Hossein Amini, from the book by James Sallis

Music

Cliff Martinez

Cinematography

Newton Thomas Sigel

Editing

Matthew Newman

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2011

Produced by

Bold Films, Odd Lot Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Motel Movies, Drive Film Holdings, Seed Productions

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action, thriller
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	Non-sexual, close-up prolonged breasts
Sex	Brief kissing
Violence	Strong impact, bloody, frequent
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Non
Comments	Action thriller loaded with bloody violence.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Box Office (USA)Pete Hammond One of the most unexpected and exciting film experiences of this or any other year

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert 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.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli This is a moody film, with moments of understated, dark humor and bleakness. Most importantly, it shows that movies can generate a testosterone-and-adrenaline cocktail without requiring viewers to undergo a frontal lobotomy to appreciate the result.

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers Buckle up for the existential bloodbath of Drive, a brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it's good. You can get buzzed just from the fumes coming off this wild thing.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs An action pic that plays to the viewer's reptilian and higher functioning brain processes, Drive ends up taking the overly familiar and manages to send it down a road that ends up feeling new and unexplored.

Metacritic.com40 critics

RottenTomatoes.com214 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer A hyper-stylized blend of striking imagery and violence, Drive represents a fully realized vision of arthouse action

Movie Review Query Engine (USA)MRQE critics <img src=http://mrqe_histograms.s3.amazonaws.com/detailed-graph-121844.jpg?score=83>

Movie Review Intelligence (USA)51 critics

Internet (IMDB)66048 Netizens

Average .. 84%

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