![]() ![]() ![]() Oddly, this brief moment shares something in common with John Singleton’s 2 Fast 2 Furious. We’d imagine you wouldn’t last more than a few seconds if you were to try this in reality (so for goodness’ sake, don’t bother). After all, we’ve seen cars drive the wrong way down a highway numerous times in the movies, and their car seldom emerges with so much as a scratch. It’s stuff like this that makes this relatively short chase (weighing in as it does at about one minute 30 seconds in total) so nail-biting and memorable – in the moment, with the cinema lights down, it feels real. Sure, there are repeated moments where both the Driver and the bad guy at the helm of the Chrysler head onto the wrong side of the road and straight into on-coming traffic, but their driving decisions are all based on split-second and ultimately quite logical judgements rather than implausible kamikaze runs down one way streets. Drive eschews the city-wrecking madness of, say, the Fast & Furious franchise almost entirely, going for an air of relative realism in its depiction of the drama’s precise driving technique and risk-taking. This sequence has much in common with the classic Bullitt, in that it’s more about the sound of the engines and the drama of the situation than gonzo stunts and wholesale destruction. ![]()
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