Alicia I love this movie so much

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Lars Lendale If you can get through the first five minutes of this dope, I applaud you. Between the distorted images, upside down, the infernal flashes and inverted editing, the cinematography is as good as any bottom feeder could have made it. This thing, is so poorly filmed it's atrocious. Did the producers look at it at some point before ever releasing it ? Because it's bad. It's about as bad of shot movie as there is alongside phone-filmed 2016 Ben-Hur. The plot, is absent. The characters are stereotyped, the dialogues have no substance, the racing is science fiction, at no point is the movie ever really about racing and I'm not sure it was about anything. It's not about relationships, not about business, or laws of gravity, it's just a silly flick I guess is aired around 11 pm. The names of the protagonists look like they were stolen out of a you know what kind of R-rated movie.Jesus could you find more tacky than Jimmy Bly and Joe Tanto ? The cast is awful, either too old or too inexperienced, too difficult to understand as well -- hey here's a thing, if you're hiring a german actor, can you actually find one that SOUNDS english ? I'm sorry but you can't hire an actor with an english as bad as Til Schweiger, poor guy could hardly speak. Stallone, look, I don't understand what he's saying. I really can't. I have no idea what he saying half the time. But between the flying cars (which would immediately postpone the race), the drivers saving themselves from a car accident in a lake, seeing fans on a podium and then seeing them again on a podium in Tokyo (what? the chick was hot, not hard to recognize even at the back), go-fast around Chicago in a champ car without a helmet on and infested with subplots that go nowhere to a disjointed ending. This is why you can't hire an acting crew and think you're going to kick-butt because they're all good looking. Guess what ? They're all good looking in the movie business ! You cannot direct a movie this way. You need actors who have charisma, know their role and can act. Driven doesn't provide that and instead proceeds itself in laugher. We know the theme, the old veteran who grooms the young kid, that was done years ago in Bull Durham. The movie is built too much around clips, quick shots of car girls, overview shots, because the content is too poor and goes missing. The CGI are obvious, champ cars do not crash like that or float over water by the way. The champ car staff is so awkward, there doesn't seem to be a trainer in there, only agents and girlfriends and again too many shots of beautiful women it's an invasion. None of these actors really show any skill or belief in their part, haven't heard Pardue do anything since that, Stallone did additional garbage and the rest vanished off. You don't understand the purpose in this junk, wether relationships or sportsmanship, you don't get i. Between that and the horrible soundtrack picked by a teenage 13 year old, you don't get it. The ex-wive comes off as spiteful but apparently everybody in the movie points to Tanto being the loser and the sabotage artist. You don't get anything from this movie. At least it's great for advertising.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in his filmography in order, I come to 2001's Driven.Plot In A Paragraph: Talented young race-car driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardew) has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry (a delightful Burt Reynolds) brings former racing star Joe Tanto (Stallone) on board to help Bly. Once again (as with Get Carter) Sly wanted to make a character driven movie like Copland. What he ended up with was almost a supporting role in his own melodramatic soap opera. His original script was 220 pages long, and according to director Renny Harlin's commentary, his first cut of the movie was 4 hours long. It's amazing he thought what was here, made the best movie. The 51 minutes of deleted footage included as special feature on DVD show a much better movie was left on the cutting room floor. Rumour has it, the studio had lost confidence in Sly's ability to open a movie as the lead, and had a lot of his scenes cut, with more more focus put on the younger supporting characters. It's to the movies detriment Harlin went along with this, as Sly is the best thing in the movie. As for the rest of the cast, with the exception of Burt Reynolds, Til Schweiger and Brent Briscoe the supporting cast are awful Kip Pardew isn't as bad as Robert Sean Leonard, Cristian De La Fuente, Gina Gerahon and Stacy Edwards but he is bad enough. The coin trick scene is one of the coolest things in a Sly movie. However the car chase in the streets of Chicago, using the racing cars is one of the silliest things In any of Sly's movies. I think if Sly directed this movie himself, it may have turned out very differently, as listening to his commentary on the DVD, you can tell he is dissatisfied that some good character driven scenes were cut. He later reused some of these ideas in 'Rocky Balboa'. My advice is to check out the deleted scenes on the DVD to see what could have been.Stallone was asked in an interview about films he would wish had not done, and along with 'Rhinestone' and 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot', he listed this as one of them.

Python Hyena Driven (2001): Dir: Renny Harlin / Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kip Pardue, Estella Warren, Burt Reynolds, Gina Gershon: Scene after scene of speeding around a track and wrecking automobiles in gushing style. Title refers to persistence and endurance both professionally and emotionally. Kip Pardue is the headline race car driver who loses his championship and wipes out several times due to pressure. Burt Reynolds plays the big promoter who summons Sylvester Stallone to whip him into shape. Director Renny Harlin often partakes in big budget spectacles such as Cutthroat Island, and here he employs every stereotype within reach. The concept is a yawner structured around repetitious race action including a pointless race about the city streets. Stallone is flat in what appears to be a tailor made role. Pardue has potential but he is in the wrong movie. He plays a guy dealing with the wrong woman and a declining track record. Reynolds's role is thankless and only serves as a reminder that viewers should be watching Smokey and the Bandit instead of this road kill. Estella Warren is given a role that is the equivalent to a male fantasy. Gina Gershon is also wasted here although perhaps had she played the lead female then perhaps it might have had better clout on that end. While the race action is exhilarating, the screenplay is produced into a a film that will likely drive viewers to sleep. Score: 3 / 10

David Robinson I love motor racing and this was on TV so I thought I'd take a look. I don't know if it got a Razzie but it deserved one: even though it had racing cars, it was easily the worst film I've ever seen (and I've seen Under Siege).Apart from the preposterous plot, what really got me was the race sequences. This is real 2- second attention span stuff, with a ridiculous number of highly-unrealistic crashes. I don't know which one was best: the car that went into the tyre barrier and, instead of being brought to a rapid halt, exploded as it burst through the other side of the tyre-wall; or the car that glanced the barriers, inexplicably went airborne, and then was shown in slow- motion... while all the other cars continued on the track at unabated speed- interesting twist on the laws of physics.Most insulting was the total disregard of any characters' fates that were involved in these crashes. Ten cars in a massive crash, including some that get submerged in a lake: so what? Tyre lands amongst the spectators, ah well. I don't know what race marshalls would think about being portrayed taking 4 minutes getting to a crashed car, either.Do yourself a favour and watch Le Mans, Grand Prix or Pixar's Cars instead. Or Days of Thunder: at least that knows it's having a bit of a laugh.