Rolling Loud Miami 2022 kicked off on Friday (July 22) with Kid Cudi in the headlining
One of his best-remembered films remains the taut 2011 thriller Drive, in which he played
an unnamed stunt driver who is cool behind the wheel but monosyllabic in
conversation. As Officer K in Blade Runner 2049, he was quite literally robotic, an artificial
“replicant” designed to be void of emotion. In First Man, he portrayed the astronaut Neil
Armstrong as prickly and standoffish, far more ready to face his work than any interpersonal
relationship. But as remote as he seemed in each of those movies, he was always grappling
with a complex character, proper story stakes, and a touch of internal weirdness. His newest
lead role, in Netflix’s action blockbuster The Gray Man, has none of that.
Once again, Gosling is playing a man with no name, this time an assassin who goes