The 'Drive' effect still has plenty of miles in the tank
The year is 2011: AllSaints is making a fortune, the uploading of 623 Big Night Out photos to Facebook is considered normal, and everyone is losing their tiny minds over a dreamy, Eighties pastiche of an action film that sees Ryan Gosling beat several proverbial shades out of horrid men to synth-pop lullabies by professionally awkward indie acts., the 2011 hit by director Nicolas Winding Refn – his only hit, perhaps – was huge. Is huge, in fact.
Few action films have so delicately peppered real, convincing emotion into one long blockbuster set piece. This could've so easily been Jason Statham in. But instead, the heist film is artier, and loftier, and better-dressed. So sharp it is that
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