Driven

2001 "Get ready for the race of your life."
4.6| 1h56m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 27 April 2001 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.

Genre

Drama, Action

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Director

Renny Harlin

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Driven Audience Reviews

Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
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.
adonis98-743-186503 A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give him guidance. Driven is for sure not my favorite Stallone movie or my favorite from the ones he produced or wrote but it's still a pretty nice movie and let me talk about the flaws first of all some characters could be directed far better for example Jimmy played by Kip Pardue, the cgi is mediocre and it can be easily spot on but at least it's not as bad as the cgi from the Star Wars Prequels and that scene when the car crashed and fly around from the Race to the river was a bit over the top although the director isn't that bad into filming this film they could easily find someone better although he has directed some pretty cool movies for example Die Hard 2 and some crappy ones like The Legend of Hercules. It's not the best F1 movie ever made but still it's worth your time just for Sylvester Stallone only if you want my advice go check out Rush from 2013 directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth and Olivia Wilde.
hendohendrik Driven was originally pitched to Formula 1 as a way to crack the US market before the long awaited Grand Prix return to the US in 2000. Fortunately for the F1 administration, they declined to go ahead with the project, a project which has now uncategorically become the worst automotive racing film in history; both in present and in the foreseeable future. Even in millennia from now, when humans have developed extreme degrees of empathy towards failures of past generations, this film will be nothing but a scorched memory on our great civilisation.This film will, undoubtedly, cause you to lose that last finite ounce of faith that you had in Hollywood's ability to convey a true motor-racing film onto the big screen. Dashed will be your optimism and hope, washed away in a bath of tremendous pain, anger and loss. For you shall never be able to enjoy another F1 or Indycar style movie with the disconcerting knowledge that it has been horrendously attempted before in mind-bloggling array of painful acting, shameful dialogue and epilepsy inducing cinematography.This film should not be approached at any time, any close contact with both its cover, disc or start menu may cause a debilitating and horrible emotion that, up to the release of Driven in 2001, was unbeknown to mankind.Please for the love of god ban this film in all UN and non-UN recognised nations, territories, isles, treaties, ice-shelves and water-borne land masses both natural and man-made.
gianlucatesi It's hard to write a review about something so horrible in every single aspect: acting, scripting and, above all, the representation of Indycar races... I guess if at least one in the entire troupe has ever watched a real race in his life! Stupid and unrealistic things keep happening all the time, without logic or respect for the intelligence of the unlucky spectator. I'm not spending any more time reviewing this movie, I only hope that no one wants to see it after these lines. I'm a huge race fan and this movies is insulting and a true shame... Arghh! I've been DRIVEN mad! Not yet ten lines! This movie sucks... really sucks! I got it!