The laconic hero of Drive is not just a man without a name, the lonely fellow is a man without a decade. "The Driver" (Ryan Gosling) sports an anachronistic white satin jacket through much of Drive , which is announced in titles whose pink script is consciously reminiscent of those of Risky Business . Only The Driver's first getaway car, a late model Chevy Impala, ties him to the present . "The most popular car in California," announces Shannon (Bryan Cranston), the mechanic who sets up the young man with the souped-up getaway vehicle for the first job we see The Driver perform with icy precision. The first action sequence during which Gosling's mysterious character is wheel man for two robbers gets Drive off to a bracing, promising start. Before the Impala starts roaring along the streets and ducking into underpasses of nighttime Los Angeles, before The Driver pulls on his taut, leather gloves and inserts a trademark toothpick into his mouth, th...