| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is so filled with action that dramatic conflict would be more than we could handle, so all of the characters are nice.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip.
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| 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.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
Whenever the tires stop screeching and the fenders slamming, the story lands in a brutal pile-up of cliches.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
May persuade you to identify not with race-car drivers but with race cars.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Driven is in both its script and its execution a paint-by-numbers affair.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.
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| 40 |
Variety
Director Renny Harlin has unfortunately adopted a let's-try-anything attitude that translates into a chaotic and unattractive visual style.
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| 40 |
Film.com
For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective.
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
Stallone's script is well structured, though the jaw-droppingly banal dialogue gives us little reason to care.
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| 40 |
New York Magazine
Driven is recommended only to those gentle souls who want to know what it looks like to crash into a wall at 200 mph.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
It's outrageously stereotypical and weirdly personal, so loonily exaggerated it keeps surprising you.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
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.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Gas -- the hot air variety -- is exactly what Driven is made of.
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| 25 |
USA Today
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.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Embarrassingly bad - the kind of slapdash exercise that gives even Hollywood formula a bad name, while doing little justice to the sport.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
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.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
It's not quite as bad as "Cutthroat Island," I'll grant you, but it's woefully close.
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| 10 |
Mr. Showbiz
A slick, simplistic, and laughable effort that's reminiscent of a bad Jerry Bruckheimer film. A really bad Bruckheimer film.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
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