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Movie Overview
Cast
• Sylvester Stallone
• Kip Pardue
• Gina Gershon
Director
• Renny Harlin
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - language and some intense crash sequences
Driven (2001)

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OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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1.5/4
"...if possible, the dialogue in Stallone's screenplay is even more ludicrous than its set pieces."  Film Freak Central  Bill Chambers

"With all the style of a decade-old beer commercial, Driven careens from one confrontation to another."  Citysearch  Chris Barsanti

3/5
"Even the race scenes turn the goings on into Formula One for Dummies."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

3/4
"...excels with pure visceral thrills but merely toddles by with its story and characters."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C-
"Enjoy those racing scenes, and take a nap the rest of the time."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

0.5/4
"It’s a terrible film that made no effort of anything but to find a track and go real fast in hope that we wouldn’t realize we were only going straight and making lefts."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

D-
"Spins its wheels tediously for a couple of hours before exploding in a fireball of melodramatic excess."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"Unless you find car racing to be a nearly orgasmic experience, Driven offers little in the way of entertainment."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2.5/4
"as a thinly disguised allegory for the fading career of Sylvester Stallone, it is a perversely enjoyable ride filled with retro pleasures and immense camp potential."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3/4
"...the total testosterone package."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

"A contrived, hackneyed and generally overblown and pointless production, this is the sort of film that gives big-budget, Hollywood films a bad name."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

5/10
"It's just too dumbed down! No real suspense. No real drama. No real surprises. Just some great action scenes featuring cars swerving around racetracks at many a mile an hour while kick arse songs blare on in the background."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

4/10
"Stallone plays a down-and-outer, a washed-up athlete who makes a comeback and proves himself a hero. No, wait. That was Rocky. No matter."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

"It's probably no coincidence that Driven is only one letter away from being Drivel."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

2/4
"Intento de escapismo hollywoodense que se queda a medio camino por lo risible de su argumento y lo inanimado de sus actuaciones."  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

C
"This is the kind of flick that finds two racers seriously endangering the city streets only to have a Yoda/Luke moment and walk away without so much as a police warning."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

1.5/5
"As hollow and fundamentally false as a video driving game"  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

2.5/4
"An average race-car movie with a few cool scenes and blatant special effects."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"Settle in for two hours of the funniest stuff you’ve ever seen onscreen."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/4
"By the end, I was ready to hop in my own car and do 200 MPH out of the parking lot."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

2/5
"Director Renny Harlin has a gift for putting the audience in the center of the action, and that is where the movie delivers."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

2/5
"This is a boys' movie, with the understated, depressed-sounding Stallone reading his own script with the world-weariness of a fallen king far from love and glory."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

2/4
"Special effects lap the field, while the plot is in the pits."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

C
"Nothing delves into the psyche of the sport."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

78/100
"Stallone uses Driven to lash out at Hollywood, the vehicle that gave him fame, by placing him at the centre of a seminal Hollywood film."  Apollo Guide  Ryan Cracknell

1.5/5
"Stallone and Car Racing: Just goin' around in circles."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

C-
"Has all the dramatic resonance of a video game."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

""Too many cliches signal the checkered flag on this deafening, fast-paced auto-racing picture.""  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger

1/4
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OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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