He'll get you away faster than anyone else on wheels. Ryan O'Neal plays the driver - an ice-cool getaway ace for hire by whoever can afford his crash course skills. Bruce Dern is the detective - a man obsessed with arresting the speed demon at any cost... The Driver lures his foe into a deadly game of cross and double cross by leaving tantalising evidence at every heist until the vengeance-crazed Detective can stand no more and the film erupts into a frenzy of twisted metal and burning rubber. A 1970's classic from Walter Hill.
Interesting Cat-and-Mouse action film that sees Ryan O'Neal as the eponymous driver - nicknamed "cowboy" - pursued beyond the limits of the law by obsessive cop Bruce Dern. There are plenty of cool car-chase scenes, and the minimalist dialogue gives enough exposition to make sense of the plot without stifling the action; but it's chase scenes which are the set-pieces of the film lack the chic of "Bullit" and the original "Gone in Sixty Seconds"; they lack the danger of "The French Connection"; and while owning a copy of Claude Lelouch's "C'Etait Un Rendez-Vous"; I feel they lack the authenticity to really thrill. Nevertheless a good film, and better than any car-chase film made in the last twenty years.
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Walter Hill directs this comedy-thriller in which Ryan O'Neal plays the Driver, an ice-cool getaway ace whose skills are for hire. Bruce Dern is the detective who becomes obsessed with catching him. The more O'Neal leaves tantalising clues at the crime scenes, the more Dern becomes a man possessed with catching his prey. Isabelle Adjani also stars.
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