Reviewing Movies

In attempting to make an action movie that has personality and storyline the producers have created a morally  ambiguous character. Canadian Ryan Gosling plays Drive, a man without a name who divides his time between working in a friend's garage, movie stunt driving, and wheel-man for heist jobs. Not uncharacteristic of the genre his face displays an emotional range between steely-eyed sneer and grim smirk. When asked about his casting as Young Hercules he was reported to have said that he persuaded the producers that they didn't need a Hercules with muscles. With his round shoulders and self-contained emotions he is not your typical action figure; if there's passion in there he fails to let it out, his actions are deliberate and mechanical. Driver gets the job done without malice or judgement. The action scenes are note perfect but Driver seems emotionally uninvolved in his own life. The scenes he has with Benicio are the closest he comes to showing human emotions.