\n\nA Drive that's better than The Cars' Drive? Yes, impossible, I know, but Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive looks like it comes pret-ty close. It may sound a bit corny in writing, but it plays, and it speaks well for that Refn/Gosling Logan's Run remake that once seemed so dubious. Carey Mulligan, meanwhile, plays our hero's damsel in distress, a neighbor who's dating a recently-incarcerated a-hole who is no Ryan Gosling, that's for sure. In another bit of inspired casting, Christina Hendricks' boobs are in this. And, in what's probably the most unlikely-but-great neurotic-Jewish-comedian-playing-a-kingpin casting since Scorsese had Larry David throwing cash at his underlings, Albert Brooks plays that crime boss. Reverting back from ab-flashing, rom-com Ryan Gosling to classic, indie Ryan Gosling, Ryan Gosling plays the kind of stoic bad-ass usually reserved for video games-a stunt driver by day, for-hire getaway driver by night who, in a Playing God-like twist, ends up using his skills for a crime boss. A Drive that's better than The Cars' Drive? Yes, impossible, I know, but Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive looks like it comes pret-ty close.
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