Drive

In brief:
Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver by day, getaway driver by night in this gory crime thriller that won Best Direction in Cannes.

Ramblings:
This is one more of those films where the story is too short to fill in the 90 minutes required so they do a lot of shots of the main protagonist's face just driving somewhere. It was a bit irritating at first but once I was captured by the story, it didn't bother me much anymore and I just went with it.

The story is a bit thin, the bloody scenes are quite gory, and I'm not sure that Ryan Gosling gave us enough to have us believe he'd go to so much trouble for a woman and her son. But I'm glad I saw it and would recommend it as a genre film -- whatever that means.