Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive is full of disturbing deaths, and though Christina Hendricks having her head blown to pieces at close range by a shotgun almost made the cut, Bryan Cranston is without question a more beloved and famous actor, largely as a result of his incredible recent work on Breaking Bad. He plays a far more sympathetic and unambiguously likeable character, however, in Drive, as Shannon, the Driver's (Ryan Gosling) boss and mentor of sorts. Late in the movie, Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) visits Shannon's auto shop, requesting the whereabouts of the Driver. He refuses, and so after initiating a handshake, Bernie pulls a barber's knife and slashes all the way down Shannon's wrist, leaving a gaping hole from which blood graphically squirts. We only see a brief glimpse of the blood, but the most unsettling part of the scene is Bernie's calm demeanour at watching the man die, simply stating, "Don't worry, that's it. It's done. There's no pain, it's over." Satisfaction Rating:2/10. Cranston was the most likeable character in the entire movie, and Bernie's disturbing words combined with the bleak odds stacked against the Driver made us pretty unhappy by this point. We'll give it an extra point because the gore was excellent and the scene is so bracingly effective.
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