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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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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.""
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Susan Granger
1/4
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