I was disappointed after my first viewing, I think it has been really over hyped. It's classy throughout, nice visual style & music (GTA Vice city rip off
) but the 2nd half is a little slower and I think it suffer the age old problem with pacing, it is really slow, builds up and up and up, then peters out.....
After a week or so I was still thinking about the film, so watched it again and enjoyed it a lot more. It ticks all the boxes for me, classy, no over acting, well cast and interesting characters. I still think the hype hurts the film, but watching in it's own right with lower / no prior knowledge, it would could have been film of the year for me.
Warrior on the other hand had not been hyped at all by anyone I knew & I thought it was fantastic, my wife even liked it and it's just Rocky with MMA
Drive is a much better film, but as I say the hype isn't a good thing.
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Lol at the jacket, I was thinking to myself why are you still wearing that, anyone would look a total tit walking about in it, but then Gosling kind of earned my respect. He is the epitome of Clichéd 80's cool
