Purely Joyful Movie!

It is a performances centric movie

Am I Missing Something?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I was looking forward to this show when it first aired. I loved the illegal cross country race aspect with a bunch of people all having different reasons for being in the race. The premise had me salivating for an interesting show.Then I saw the pilot. The effects were minimal, the car chases were contrived and idiotic, the characters were some of the most stupid and obnoxioius people I have ever seen on TV, and their motives were poorly written and executed with no passion whatsoever.Its obvious that too many people had ideas of how this show should be and in the end it was all watered down so that no one element had any interesting creativity left.What a shame.

The series is based on a mysterious illegal race in which people from all over are either invited or coerced to compete.There were a couple of what I consider plot holes. The main character played by Nathan Fillion (Firefly/Serenity) finds that his wife has been kidnapped. However, when faced with not one but two opportunities to capture those involved, he lets them go out of fear that the men holding his wife will killer her.Also, another character played by Melanie Lynskey (2-1/2 men fame) gives birth to a newborn baby and then leaves the hospital to enter the race with the infant (we later learn it was actually a doll) which leaves us wondering why? She says because her husband was watching her but I don't buy it. Perhaps this hanging thread will get stitched back up.These two questionable plot threads notwithstanding, it was an excellent start of a promising series.The camera footage that takes us from one car to the next was like magic! I've never seen such seamless camera/CGI work in a series before.Nathon Fillion's screen presence is great. He has an uncanny ability to exhibit a full range of emotion.It should be interesting how this series will play out. It would seem that this series (or at least this cast) would have a limited TV life because once the race is over, the cast would no longer have a job! Of course, they could drag the race out ala LOST.Either way it was a very good start.

Drive is a great show! The show is basically about a group of from around the country are coerced or invited to compete in a highly-secretive, cross-county road race with a rumored prize of $32 million, but all competitors are doing it for their own reasons. Alex Tully (Nathan Fillion from "Firefly") is doing to find his wife who has been kidnapped with the help of Corinna Wiles (Kristen Lehman from "Killer Instinct"). This show has many twist and turns to it. I like all of the high speed race scenes in the show because that's what makes the show interesting. FOX had better not cancel this show like they did with some my other favorites.

******MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS********* I just got finished watching the first two episodes of Drive, and while it is a good show, it's going to fall into the same pattern television seems to be getting themselves into. How do we keep it up.Television has been starting to get into the habit of giving us shows like Lost, Prison BVreak, Day Break and The Nine (to name a few) that like to give us more questions than answers. That is no acception to Fox's newest show Drive. In it, the main cast of twelve strangers, along with a cast of extras, are on an illegal cross country road race, with a grand prize of 32 million dollars for the winner.Some of the elements seem to be borrowed from other shows, like the "mysterious company" that's always heard but not seen, and the husband running after the love of his life while she is being held by said company. The main problem with this is that after the first season, I don't know how this can continue. They would have to get a new cast, new ways to get them to play, etc. It's like Day Break and Prison Break in that regard, because the first season was good, but look at what happened to Prison Break in it's 2nd season (in my opinion, it completely went to hell)But the cast is strong in their roles, the driving scenes, while a little contrived, are fun, and it's a good show, as long as you don';t get too invested into it. Because if it does well, and there is a second season, then the show will be completely different.