"If you ride like lightning, you're going to crash like thunder."
A fairground stunt rider, Luke (Ryan Gosling), returns to a town to find that an old flame is now the mother of a child that he didn't know he had. Desperate to have an impact on his son's life, he turns his biking talents to crime, with far-reaching repercussions...
The drama unfolds across three narratives and two generations, striking engaging parallels between father and son as it delves into the consequences of passion and the desire for revenge. The first third of the film is undeniably the most thrilling, as it sets up the following for a deeper debate into conflicting morals. Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper deliver convincing performances as profoundly contrasting characters; delivering two flawed yet identifiable protagonists. The film subsequently delves into conflicting perspectives of authority, questioning the boundaries between corruption and justice.
Even with peroxide blonde hair and thousands of tattooes Ryan is dashing, but unfortunately the narrative becomes undesirably long and increasingly drawn-out.
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