Ryan Gosling in Drive: We Can All Go Home Now.

Kicking off 2011 with Drive directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, Gosling stars in this stylish, intense thriller that includes big names (Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks) and  a blazing cameo (Christina Hendricks). Hot guy drives fast car. Enough said. Ryan Gosling is utterly cool as the stunt driver turned assassin for protection.
Of course he wears a gold satin bomber jacket with a giant scorpion on the back throughout the entire film and rocks it like a champion. Gosling is so sexy he doesn't even need a name: it's merely credited as "driver". Carey Mulligan is also perfect as the sweet, quiet love interest. The truth is that at the core of the film, Ryan Gosling's character is fiercely devoted to protecting her in
every way possible because of the innocence she and her son represent. After they are unwittingly mixed up in hard criminal activity as dues for the jailbird Dad, Gosling steps in to assist but ends up embarking on a bloody vengeance while revealing an appetite for violence comparable to Tony Montana. He doesn't carry a gun; he bludgeons a bad guy's face into a bloody pulp without a blink. And he somehow manages to remain undeniably lust-worthy after the fact. Which is actually quite unsettling...

But curiously enough, that is the magic of Ryan Gosling. He has the ability to come frighteningly close to a serial killer yet still contain enough redeemable qualities for the audience to remain on his side.
This film magnetizes you to the screen. It will have you clutching the edges of your seat as it accelerates you through a messy haze including one bad heist gone horribly wrong, an unnerving crime boss, bloody battles of Gosling vs. Evil and some Hollywood chase scenes at their absolute finest. As if it needed anything else on top of all that, the Drive soundtrack is sick. The compilation pulsates with an Eightys synth score composed by Cliff Martinez. Electro-pop and retro-experimental inspired tracks make for a playlist you would want to listen to while driving in your own car, pretending to be Ryan Gosling in his silver Chevy Impala.