The director ripped off Kubrick in Bronson and this seems heavily influenced by The Driver and Thief, but at least it’s not your standard Hollywood car chase film, and I enjoyed it. A real test of acting is if you can tell what the actor is thinking without any dialogue – Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan have this in spades. Albert Brooks is excellent in a rare baddie role – humorous, physically threatening, stabbing away. Ron Pearlman, Bryan Cranston and Christina Hendricks are all good too. I really liked the opening getaway scene – instead of a free-for-all pursuit it’s more a combination of short dashes, stopping, hiding, ducking and weaving, more cat and mouse – it felt more realistic. Thumping soundtrack combined with kitschy pop songs and 80s graphics, sudden bursts of gory violence, surprisingly little car chasing, a weird scene where Gosling almost kills someone in a room full of topless dancers (which felt Kubrick).
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