It’s not so much of a scene-specific commentary as it is a loose conversation between the two of them, sharing much more generalized thoughts about the film. Yet Refn’s real inspirations for Drive came from the filmmakers who preceded him, especially Walter Hill with The Driver, but also Michael Mann with his debut feature Thief. Coming home one night beat up, the Driver offers to help him out of trouble but things dont quite go the way they planned. Refn's visual eye transcends even the minuscule shooting budget here, keeping things real and low-key, shooting from within vehicles, capturing precision driving (some done by Gosling himself), and finely balancing evocatively stylish mood shots with his trademark outbursts of unprecedented violence (it's all very Cronenberg/ History of Violence here, with Refn approaching Irreversible's Gasper Noe for tips! A loner, who works in a garage and in his spare time acts as a getaway driver for various low lifes.

The improvements are most apparent with details like the costuming, such as the weave on the ski masks worn by the robbers during the opening chase scene. The 118-minute runtime is chock full of sequences that flex both Dacascos’ martial arts mastery and Steve Wang’s mastery of the montage cut. A drab motel room turns into a fully realized fighting area in one sequence, showing you the possibilities within that limited space. That gives the whole chase a fascinating pattern of start/stop rhythms, but the entire sequence maintains a high level of tension even when things have slowed down—arguably more so than when the action kicks in. This motion-activated spotlight security cameras shine brightly upon suspicious events, plus a siren alarm - leaving no chance for intruders to break into your property.That, coupled with the stunning cinematography from DOP Newton Thomas Sigel, leaves the visuals too sublime in both composition and rendering to really attempt to fault. A laconic best in the business getaway driver with a strict professional code has his loner lifestyle turned upside down when he falls for his neighbour Irene.

que decir también que no trae tantos extras esta edición de importación -pero trae un pequeño detrás de cámaras algo ilustrativo que ya es bastante en comparación- y tampoco cuenta con doblaje (por si tienen la duda). Based on James Sallis' 2005 crime novel of the same name, Drive was originally intended to be a big budget blockbuster - a starring vehicle for Hugh Jackman no less - to be directed by then-upcoming The Descent filmmaker, Neil Marshall (the former would choose Real Steel instead, the latter would give us.Refn has been promising a special 'Queen' edition of Drive for the last decade, and it looks like Second Sight has finally delivered. For somebody like me that wants only the best, this doesn't work even if they put the movie on one disc and placed the extras on a Blu-ray. That's not to say we don't get some discrete overhead and surround dissemination, with early helicopters whipping past overhead, whilst the LFE input is significant, not only bolstering the score itself, but also bringing significant weight to both the guttural growl of the performance engines, as well as the boom of the shotgun blasts which will shake you to the core. While there is indeed a full-throttle car chase in the middle of Drive, the chase that opens the film is an entirely different matter, demonstrating that Driver’s skills are as much mental as they are physical.