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Driven

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 18 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Sylvester Stallone
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 27, 2001
DVD: September 18, 2001
Running Time: 117 minutes, Color
Origin: Canada / USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language and some intense crash sequences
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger, Burt Reynolds, Stacy Edwards, Estella Warren, Gina Gershon, and Robert Sean Leonard
A high-tech action drama set in the dangerous, exhilarating world of open-wheel racing, Driven centers on the lives and careers of four drivers chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. (Warner Brothers)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie is so filled with action that dramatic conflict would be more than we could handle, so all of the characters are nice.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Michael Vega
When the film predictably limps across the finish line, you're left with the impression your time would have been better spent sitting in traffic.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Whenever the tires stop screeching and the fenders slamming, the story lands in a brutal pile-up of cliches.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
May persuade you to identify not with race-car drivers but with race cars.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Even if his (Stallone) own star may be fading, the popularity of car racing is enormous. These fans are not likely to be disappointed by Driven.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Driven is in both its script and its execution a paint-by-numbers affair.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Between Stallone's soap opera of a script and Renny Harlin's speed-obsessed visuals, we're never really shown much more than fast cars and obsessed drivers.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Director Renny Harlin has unfortunately adopted a let's-try-anything attitude that translates into a chaotic and unattractive visual style.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
Stallone's script is well structured, though the jaw-droppingly banal dialogue gives us little reason to care.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Driven is recommended only to those gentle souls who want to know what it looks like to crash into a wall at 200 mph.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's outrageously stereotypical and weirdly personal, so loonily exaggerated it keeps surprising you.
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Even fans of open-wheel racing, the high-speed, high-stress pastime that is the subject of Renny Harlin's hectic new film, may walk away from it more logy than exhilarated.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This noisy, time-wasting spectacle is crammed with what purports to be characters, except that not one of them has any more depth than will fit into a one-line description.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Gas -- the hot air variety -- is exactly what Driven is made of.
USA Today Mike Clark
A race-car drama full of flashy but empty images and a soundtrack that makes you feel as if you're being shaken on a motel rumblebed.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Embarrassingly bad - the kind of slapdash exercise that gives even Hollywood formula a bad name, while doing little justice to the sport.
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
What we have here is a film where the first 20 minutes are repeated again and again until everything comes to an absolutely predictable end.
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's not quite as bad as "Cutthroat Island," I'll grant you, but it's woefully close.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Larry Terenzi
A slick, simplistic, and laughable effort that's reminiscent of a bad Jerry Bruckheimer film. A really bad Bruckheimer film.
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
An appallingly dull film set in the world of professional racing, director Renny Harlin and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone have found a way to drain all the adrenaline out of the sport.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
robert k. gave it a2:
Utter failure.
Pat C. gave it a 0:
Tried to watch. Felt my life-force ebbing away. So bad it doesn't even merit condemnation.
Sandi C. gave it a 10:
I thought this was a great movie. My two boys loved it.
Shannon gave it a 10:
Great Movie!
Dawn gave it a 10:
The movie was great. I loved it. All of you that thought it was stupid and stuff......thats weird cuz I thought it was a great movie. So what if nextel was in there alot you need sponsors! I thought they did a great job with the movie. It was not boring. The crashes were pretty cool. I thought Sylvester did a good job written it out! It is my fave movie!
.Lemming51 gave it a 0:
The worst. A complete and total waste of time. Unfortunately makes the great CART series look like a bad soap opera with video game violence. Worse than Days of Thunder, makes Canonball II look like like fine art.
Phatbloke B. gave it a 0:
How much did nextel put into this movie!! thats all you see non-stop. Its one big infomercial.
