Drive.(Movie review)(Brief article)

Byline: GRAHAM FULLER

DRIVE

There's a touch of Steve McQueen about the ultra-laconic loner played, with nary a bat of an eyelid, by Ryan Gosling in Drive.

Director Nicolas Winding Refn's artful L.A. action thriller, adapted from James Sallis's short noir novel, stars Gosling as Driver, a grease monkey/stunt driver/getaway man who falls in love with a vulnerable young mother, Irene (Carey Mulligan), while her husband's in stir. When the latter is released and forced by gangsters to rob a pawnshop, Driver volunteers as his …