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Driven (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 95

Underdeveloped characters, silly plot dynamics, and obvious CG effects.

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 24

Underdeveloped characters, silly plot dynamics, and obvious CG effects.

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Movie Info

Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's slipping in the rankings as the championships loom. Under pressure from his promoter brother Demille (Robert Sean Leonard) and wheelchair-bound owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds), Jimmy is given a mentor -- Joe Tanto (Stallone), a once great CART

Jun 1, 2004

$32.4M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (122) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (97) | DVD (18)

Sylvester Stallone's homoerotic car-racing actioner delivers something between Speed Racer and gay porn.

April 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Why waste your quarters on the video games in the mall when you can pay $10 to see the same thing on the big screen?

April 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Driven is all over the map in more ways than one.

April 27, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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A paint-by-numbers affair.

April 27, 2001 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Driven, to put it bluntly, makes Days of Thunder look like Citizen Kane on Wheels.

April 27, 2001 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Formula One race cars outshine the formula script.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Less a look at Formula One than a pilot for a flat sub-Aaron Spelling sudser that just happens to be set in the world of auto racing.

April 4, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

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.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

The dialogue is so bad in Driven that at one of the dramatic points, the crowd erupted in laughter.

December 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Katrillion.com | Comment
Katrillion.com

...excels with pure visceral thrills but merely toddles by with its story and characters.

October 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
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Intento de escapismo hollywoodense que se queda a medio camino por lo risible de su argumento y lo inanimado de sus actuaciones.

June 11, 2002 Full Review Source: Moviola | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Driven

Mediocre action film directed by Renny Harlin, Driven is a poorly constructed actioner that not even the good looking racing scenes could save. This is a film that doesn't satisfy, and the cast are terrible in their roles. Driven could have been a good film if it had a better script, a better cast and director. Renny

November 30, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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Oooooooh. It was pretty good. Why is everyone always picking on poor ole Sly?..

October 14, 2010
itsjustme2004

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