Driven

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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

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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

May persuade you to identify not with race-car drivers but with race cars.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.

Variety Todd McCarthy

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

Film.com Tom Keogh

For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Rita Kempley

Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.

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.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.