Is Drive the neo-noir masterpiece many critics have declared it to be? YES! While I previously likened Drive to the '73 Chevelle Gosling drove in the film (badass and striking on the exterior, but not a true muscle car under the hood), I was mistaken on two accounts. Not only is Drive a fully realized vision of arthouse action, the '73 Chevelle was more than capable of inducing a shot of adrenaline too. To follow-up Drive, Gosling and director Nicholas Winding Refn have gone completely off the grid and traveled to Thailand to make an independent "revenge fairy tale." Gosling stars as a man who has been living in exile in Bangkok for the past ten years after killing a cop. He manages a Thai boxing club as a front for a drug operation and finds himself in hot water after his brother is killed for murdering a prostitute. The boy's mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives in Bangkok to collect her son's body and instructs Gosling to take revenge and "raise hell." Gosling is on record as describing the script as "the strangest thing I've ever read and it's only going to get stranger." Only God Forgives has the potential to be the most violent, daring, and unusual film to be released in years. Need proof? Check out the leaked 20-second clip below. Even in 360p - it's downright stunning.(May 23)
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