Drive Hard (2014)
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Former racecar driver Peter Roberts (Thomas Jane) traded the winner's circle for a 9 to 5 job as a beginners' driving instructor. But his life shifts into overdrive when Simon Keller (John Cusack) hijacks Peter to be his getaway driver in a $9 million heist. (c) Image Entertainment- Rating:
- Unrated
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure , Art House & International , Comedy , Special Interest
- Directed By:
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Written By:
- Chad Law , Evan Law , Brigitte Jean Allen
- In Theaters:
- Oct 3, 2014 Limited
- On DVD:
- Nov 11, 2014
- Runtime:
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John Cusack
as Simon Keller -
Thomas Jane
as Peter Roberts -
Christopher Morris I...
as Rossi -
Damien Garvey
as Detective Chief Insp... -
Zoe Ventoura
as Agent Walker -
Yesse Spence
as Tessa Roberts
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Critic Reviews for Drive Hard
All Critics (24) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (22)
It's no fresher than its title - a long chase movie with Cusack as master thief and Thomas Jane as his reluctant accomplice.
You know there's something fundamentally wrong with Drive Hard less than five seconds in: It opens on a shot of star Thomas Jane sporting an absurd mop of a hairdo that might have been borrowed from a Raggedy Ann doll.
Does a lot of revving in order to juice its jokey, violent bad-boy cred, but it never gets out of the driveway.
Approximately as unforgettable as its title ...
Normally, I would have no objection to being trapped in a car with John Cusack, but that was before I saw "Drive Hard."
[It] doesn't exactly work up a sweat devising an interesting plot villains, but the badinage between the odd couple ... makes the time pass painlessly enough.
Very disappointing potboiler that runs out of gas far too quickly.
Delivers a goodly amount of good natured action fun but in the end suffers from being just too low-key for its own good.
"Drive Hard" is just a bore, barely registering as a movie, which is a shame, because with the oddball cast and somewhat notable director, it could have been fun and trashy.
A deeply terrible would-be action comedy that looks, sounds, and feels like an 80s cheap and cheesy made-for-cable movie.
Sputtering on fumes almost from the start, it captures a well-earned checkered flag as one of the worst films of 2014.
Feels like the work of a computer program that analyzed dozens of popular movies in different genres, then self-generated a screenplay that tried to incorporate elements from all of them.
It's dumb. It's ugly. And yet it's not all bad.
Falls a little flat, never quite secure in its insanity and perhaps a bit too ambitious with its screenplay, which spends more time building secretive allegiances than it does tending to the visceral highlights.
Just as egregious as its retrograde sexual politics, however, is the film's distinct lack of energy or wit -- shortcomings that ultimately render it merely a cruddy B-movie throwaway.
This movie is so colorless, odorless, and (especially) tasteless, so devoid of mass or substance, that it's easy to forget even while it's still playing.
Scruffy, low budget, the driving is weak but in some weird way, Jane and Cusack have chemistry and make this fitfully amusing.
Audience Reviews for Drive Hard
Drive Hard is a film that had an interesting concept for a film, one that was quite great to be honest. This is a film that should really have been something great, but as a whole, does it standout? Not really. The film starts off fine, but it quickly runs out of effective ideas to really make it standout. This had the potential of being a great action film, but something was missing to really make it a worthwhile film to watch. I really wanted to enjoy the film, unfortunately, it was underwhelming and mediocre. The film wasn't awful, but it lacked anything to really grab your attention. Drive Hard could have been a fine low budget action film, unfortunately, it never becomes anything memorable or entertaining for that matter. If the script would have been better thought out, and polished up a bit, then maybe this film would have been something great, as it is, it's a pretty dull affair, and it's a shame because the film had a very good premise, unfortunately the execution was sloppy, and it ended up being a bland film that simply didn't deliver. Drive Hard should have been better, but it quickly goes all over the place, and tries far too hard at being a well executed action, which it's not, and it loses track of what it tries to do by compressing too much into a short run time, add to that plenty of genre clichés, and you have a film that is not that interesting. This could have worked very well if the script would have been reworked, instead it ends up being a mediocre film that tries to be far too ambitious than it is. A forgettable film that isn't worth revisiting again.
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