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Driven
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sylvester Stallone
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Renny Harlin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 18, 2001
Video: September 18, 2001
Theatrical: April 27, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / USA |

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...
63
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.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip.

50
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.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Whenever the tires stop screeching and the fenders slamming, the story lands in a brutal pile-up of cliches.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
May persuade you to identify not with race-car drivers but with race cars.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.

50
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.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Driven is in both its script and its execution a paint-by-numbers affair.
42
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.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Director Renny Harlin has unfortunately adopted a let's-try-anything attitude that translates into a chaotic and unattractive visual style.

40
Film.com
Tom Keogh
For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective.

40
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.

40
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.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's outrageously stereotypical and weirdly personal, so loonily exaggerated it keeps surprising you.
30
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.

30
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.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Gas -- the hot air variety -- is exactly what Driven is made of.
25
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.

25
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.
25
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.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's not quite as bad as "Cutthroat Island," I'll grant you, but it's woefully close.

10
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
A slick, simplistic, and laughable effort that's reminiscent of a bad Jerry Bruckheimer film. A really bad Bruckheimer film.
10
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.

10
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.

10
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.


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