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Hell, the cast alone that Refn has amassed makes this awesome, but I can confirm that everyone checks out - all of them are great, even though it felt like the 'villains' of the story were a bit over-the-top at times. From there the story begins to progress into some riskier areas, as Irene has a husband in jail, and the driver's right-hand man Shannon (played by Bryan Cranston from "Breaking Bad") gets a little too involved with a group of local 'mobsters' that includes the likes of Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks.
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Next we meet the adorable Irene, played fantastically as always by Carrie Mulligan, who the driver obviously takes a liking to when he discovers she lives right next to him in the same apartment complex. I could've seen an entire film about getaways like that, but Refn exits that highway quickly to take the story another route. It's brilliant, exciting and visually exhilarating yet never gets caught up in any Hollywood cliches. The film opens with one of these getaways through downtown LA, but it's not a high speed chase with explosions, as he drives with his brain (or rather his badass leather gloves) staying in darkness to dodge cops, escaping helicopters by hiding under overpasses, and dumping his cargo the moment the Lakers win a game at the Staples center. Gosling plays the 'driver', a quiet, reserved, but inherently badass mechanic/stuntman who occasionally works as a 'wheelman' - the getaway driver - for heists.
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The plot is fairly straightforward which is what makes this such a smooth ride. It is indeed that good and I do want to see it again immediately. Drive is the latest collaboration between actor Ryan Gosling and Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, that not only played in competition at Cannes (an impressive feat), but is one of the few films I could potentially call flawless. But I will thankfully say that Drive is one of those rare films, which I was lucky enough to catch as my final film in Cannes.
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Any cinephile knows it's rare to come across a film so incredible that they would happily watch it again immediately after seeing it for the first time, not to mention endless times over again on DVD.