Driven

2001

Action / Drama / Sport

30
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 14% · 111 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 43004 43K

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Plot summary

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.


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Sylvester Stallone as Joe Tanto
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Gina Gershon as Cathy Heguy
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kingslaay 7 / 10

Enjoyable

There is something about well made car racing films that lands well. Similar to the other films I have seen like 'Rush' and 'Ford vs Ferrari' the formula works well. The formula of intensity, danger, high stakes and personal rivalries makes for a great car racing film. Do not trust the critics, they've lost it. I don't agree or even understand where their little heads are at.

Driven has exhilarating racing scenes. Stallone does a decent job in the film and the rest of cast help carry it nicely. Burt Reynolds (Legend) also adds value to this film. The intensity is built up nicely and the ending was really satisfying and a really nice way to end on a good note. Driven is one hell of a ride.

Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 3 / 10

Flat tire

After making Judge Dredd, Sylvester Stallone got interested in the world of auto racing.

He said of the film's concept, "Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation. And you realize that you can't always be number one. You just can't be the guy in front all the time. So what you can do is lend support to, and help and nourish and encourage someone else. So it's like your experiences live on in someone else. If you can find some young actor and you can say, "Listen, don't do this and don't do that and avoid this and that," and share your experiences, and he does succeed, you can say, "You know what, I kind of contributed to that." As an actor did you have to learn you can't always be number one the hard way. Unfortunately, I did."

Although this film was a commercial failure, it brought Renny Harlin back after his fiasco Cutthroat Island. He and Stallone had teamed up before for Cliffhanger. It was also a critical failure, nominated for seven Golden Raspberry awards and earning the ire of Jay Leno, who told Richard Roeper that it was the worst car film ever made.

In the middle of the 2000 Champ Car Season, rookie driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue, Remember the Titans) is in the lead with five big wins. But the pressure is getting to him, thanks to his brother and business manager Demille (Robert Sean Leonard, TV's House). It's also put him directly in the crosshairs of reigning champ and teammate Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger, Inglorious Basterds), who is also dealing with the distraction of his fiancee Sophia (Estella Warren, 2001's Planet of the Apes).

So Beau decides to dump her and he starts winning again. However, Jimmy has a big crash and needs an older driver to be his mentor, so team owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds!) brings back former champion Joe Tanto (Stallone) to replace Memo, another driver who is now married to Joe's ex-wife Cathy (Gina Gershon). Whew - the drama is already started, but what do you expect from a movie with the tagline "Welcome to the human race."

Joe's just supposed to be a blocker, but when he learns that Jimmy is getting with Beau's ex-fiancee, he tries to use his experience to fix things. It takes a car crash that nearly kills Memo to bring everyone back together and be friends.

Jimmy ends up the champ, with Beau in second and Joe in third. Everyone celebrates and I cheer on the credits, which finally freed me from this film. Stallone's original script was 220 pages and Harlin's first cut was four hours long, so while I often want a film to give more, I was fine with this movie ending when it did.

If you know racing, one would assume you'll love all the real racers showing up, but I would imagine so many of the details, like Joe throwing coins on the track to touch with his car, are absolutely ridiculous. Then again, this is supposedly a trick that trick real-life Formula One driver Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina used to perform.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 2 / 10

A film that, like Stallone, you'll wish they hadn't made

Ugh. Stallone once commented that he wished he'd never made this movie, and I can't help but agree with him: DRIVEN is a complete load of tosh and a stain on the careers of both the actor as well as director Renny Harlin, a guy who's made his fair share of codswallop in his time.

DRIVEN is a flashy, nonsensical racing drama, filled with all of the cheesy jump cut editing that you'd expect from a first-time director just learning the ropes, not a guy who once made the classic that is DIE HARD 2 and who directed Stallone in the engaging action flick CLIFFHANGER. Beneath the style there's very little substance indeed, with the film focusing on the boring young characters while leaving the seasoned pros (Stallone, Burt Reynolds) on the sidelines with little to do.

Even worse, the story is littered with discrepancies and plot holes, from criminal actions having no comeuppance to the general anything-to-win theme, which is all over the place. The race scenes themselves should be the highlight of this production but they're dull beyond belief, interspersed with some awful CGI shots. I don't have a single good word to say about this movie, other than that I've seen worse, but that really ISN'T a commendation.

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