Synopsis: The Driver (played by Ryan Gosling) whose only identity is his deft driving which enables him to operate on two fronts: being a Hollywood stunt driver by the name and a getaway driver for criminals at night. A hermit in terms of social life, Driver falls in love with his neighbor Irene (played by Carey Mulligan) whose husband, Standard comes back from prison. After a heist meant to purchase the freedom and protection of Standard’s family spirals out of control and Standard ends up dead, the ramifications are adversely huge for Driver and Irene as they transverse their way through the deadly criminals who are after their lives.

Description: The Driver who is a Hollywood stunt driver by the day and criminal getaway driver by the night discovers that his life and the life of his love Irene are endangered after a heist gone terribly wrong.

Review: Drive (the movie) is adapted from the novel Drive written by James Stallis. Drive has to be one of the most engrossing movies of the year due to a pile of reasons. The pivotal component that propels this movie to stardom is the acting and the character portrayed by Ryan Gosling as the Driver. He is able to so beautifully comprehend the role and execute the character so flawlessly with his smirk, his calm composure in the face of hardships, his mysteriousness, his effusive affection for Irene and his belligerent violence when endangered brings out a stimulating feel to the movie that will keep you hooked for its running time.

Drive is set in the 1980s in the glamorous LA surroundings propped by a slick and ethereal soundtrack which is euphonious but simultaneously ideal for the fearless yet caring Ryan Gosling transpiring mixed emotions from the viewers at different instantaneous points throughout the film. On the technical side, the movie is a masterpiece with its cinematography, visual effects, heart-thumping action sequences, all coming together in this amazing cinematic experience that will leave its indelible mark in our minds.

Although the violence resorted to is very bloody and brutal which transmits pure fear and should ethically be not shown to children but the reputation that this movie has amassed is a delineation of the fact, that such genre is very hard  to go by unnoticed. Drive is a movie with power, with emotions and it is one drive you would not want to miss (pun intended).