Driven

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This movie is, for lack of a better word, a waste of celluloid. I have never seen any movie that bad. The story is terrible, the cut uninspired, the cast is a shame, the CG is so clearly visible and it won´t surprise me in the least. I just could´t wait to fall asleep or just leave it. Any Racing fan must say THIS IS Garbage. No actual racing series is eqivalent and the logical gaps are terrible. Only the OST is not catastrophic. But this films deserves no better than 1/10!!!!!!

This is basically nothing more than a long, bad music video, with loud, pointless music, and whining engines. Why, oh why, does Stallone do this to himself? At least "Cobra" was so bad, it was good. Bad characters, ridiculous behavior, some over the top acting, ridiculous race scenarios...this is just plain dumb.

As the movie title suggests Driven is about a bunch of race car drivers who tear up tracks in pursuit of the world title. Don't bother about looking for artistic merit, but it you want your eyes and ears to be excited, this is movie. I really dig the German Race and the chase scene throughout the streets of Chicago. As this movie is primarily about race cars, it takes on a documentary look similar to that of an IMAX film, with emphasis placed on the race day and the emotions of the race car drivers. So many movies have tried to be so many things to so many different people i.e. Days of Thunder, but Driven concentrates mainly on the race track and thank goodness for that. In the past Sly Stallone , has copped a bad rap in the past, however this is one movie where he deserves credit. In conclusion not bad. Rating: 9/10

...this movie is so bad it hurts. ((Spoiler ahead)). To give you an idea of how bad this movie is, picture this. Elegant gala reception. A couple of fast F1 cars on display. The main character (don't even remember his name) gets mad at girlfriend, runs away, picks a car, wreaks havoc on the streets (all with corny and badly made computer animation). Our hero, the underdog (Stallone -wait... why is he always casting himself as an underdog, also ran, second place loser nowadays?) chases him, destroying cars and property. Good. They even manage to lift a sewer cover on the process (with computer animation straight out of a Commodore 64). Stallone catches up to his protegée, delivers a rousing speech while police (helicopters, cars, the works) watch. I swear many of them were crying because of the beauty of the moment... And they let them go, simple as that. Next scene is the big race. The whole movie is just one absurd plothole after another. Avoid at any cost.

I have seen this movie on video and I apreciate the story and specially the scenes.The movie is good because it's add fantastic races with some breathless special effects. The plot is not well developed such as the interpretations of the actors.Sly is there with his natural good character that always is the good guy.These details can be forgotten when the special effects appears on the screen. The scene when Memo Moreno(Christian De la Fuente)suffers an accident.UAU,man!Just watch!I'm sure you'll have fun.

The trailer lures you in and bam it hits you....did I pay to watch this? Loud music, fast cars and even faster women in between some very good racing scenes does not equal a good movie this time around. Great F/X crash visuals is the best thing you'll see here. A young hot shot racer(Kip Pardue)is nearing the end of his rookie race season and one racer(Til Schweiger)stands in the way of a championship trophy. But the rookie's season is falling apart as quick as his personal life. Race team owner(Burt Reynolds) calls a former skilled driver(Sylvester Stallone)out of retirement to help get the young turk back with the program. Gina Gershon is excellent as the unabashed sex pot; a roll she knows so well. Also in support are:Estella Warren, Stacy Edwards and Cristian de la Fuente. The tangled relationships equals the mess on the track...scorecard anyone?

Disappointed by every other race film you've seen? Driven is worse. Bad plot, forced dialogue, and mediocre acting are things you are prepared to accept in a racing picture. What you want in return are bad to the bone driving sequences. There are none of those here. Instead, music video style editing and lame computer effects take center stage in the "action" sequences. The best thing you can say about this movie is that the cars sound great.

So I was looking at the poll for IMDb's best car films and I saw this title. I couldn't believe I hadn't seen it before. It has big actors in it, and it's about fast cars. How could it possibly go wrong?? Basically it goes wrong from the first minute and never goes right again (Oval car racing pun intended. Sorry). The poor acting is made much, much worse by the lousy script. The story is all over the place. But the worst thing is the camera work. The whole film is shot like a CSI Miami montage. Soft Rock/Dance music accompanies every race scene, along with jumping angles and split screens. At least now I know why I missed the film when it was released back in 2001. I just have no idea how it achieved a lofty 4+ stars on IMDb. If you want a proper race film watch Le Mans. Even Herbie Reloaded is better than this pile of poop. This is the first time I've ever rated a film 1/10.

"Driven" is silly, contrived, poorly written nonsense about racing with more producers than core cast. Not a good racing flick and not a good people flick, "Driven" has little to offer save a lot of high speed racing and some crashes. The people part of the flick is simplistic offering the pretense of depth while leading us to believe auto racers can drive 195 mhp through Chicago with no penalty save a fine. Yeah, right. Silly stuff for the immature male mind.