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- 1978
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 31 m
- 1978
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 31 m
Summary A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Walter Hill
- 1978
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 31 m
- 1978
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 31 m
The Driver
56
6.3
Summary A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Walter Hill
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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46% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
56
46% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
46% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Driver is a film of types and trends; a cinematic expression of our basest narrative impulses. Directed with remarkable economy, the seasoned Hill keeps everything as tight as possible.
A combination of brilliantly edited car chases and existential thriller which recalls the sombreness of Melville and the spareness of Leone in a context which is the 'classical' economy of directors like Hawks and Walsh.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
67% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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As ludicrous as the dialogue by screenwriter/director Walter Hill may be, the film's visual scheme is hypnotic. Dark, moody and muscular, its style gets under your skin even if your brain rebels. [21 Aug 1978, p.66]
Director Walter Hill and stunt coordinator Everett Creach have engineered a number of car chases and they are fabulous, if you like car chases.
Hill attempted to stylize gangster characters and conventions, and although he succeeded in the action sequences, which have a near-abstract visual power, the stylized characters, with their uninflected personalities, flatten the movie out.
The Driver is a chase melodrama abstracted to the verge of pointlessness. [31 July 1978, p.B1]
Written and directed by Walter Hill, who once wrote and directed a good movie, Hard Times, with Charles Bronson. This one is not good. It is Awful Movie. It is Pretentious Movie. It is Silly Movie. It talks just like this.
