Driven (DVD)

I should have known when it said that Sylvester Stallone had written this movie that it really wouldn't be worth watching. Well, ok I did know which is why I had no intention of watching it until someone came wandering into one of my labs late last night with the movie burnt onto a CD...gotta love the internet. Anyway, work forgotten(as usual) a group of us crowded around a terminal to watch Stallone et al. doing the Rocky thing all over again... ...
...was like watching Rocky again. Sylvester Stallone seems to have one script idea and just keeps changing the locations. There is not one original idea in this movie and when its not ripping off his own movies it is ripping off other people's namely Grand Prix and Days Of Thunder in this instance, although without such things as plot and character development but with CGI crashes aplenty to keep us interested. It doesn't work. But first the plot before ...

wampyrii 10.10.2001 · Read full review
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Driven was the film that briefly stopped the box office slump of Sly Stallone in the USA. Alright it was only for a week and the film just scraped over $30 million eventually but hey it's a start. The film has got mixed reviews everywhere, none saying it's fantastic, some saying it's entertaining and some saying it's just plain awful. Well you have to bear in mind that some reviewers have a standard reply to anything featuring Sly Stallone. Even ...
...are - mindless entertainment. Driven takes place in the world of CART racing which bares some similarities to Formula One with a large popularity over the world. Team owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) has a young rookie diver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) who is fast catching up to the champion Beau Brandenberg (Til Schweiger) but is losing some composure with all the pressure. Henry brings in ex-driver Joe Tanto (Stallone) to help Jimmy get some control ...

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Driven was the kind of film that promised much, but delivered nothing. OK, forget the fact that Sylvester Stallone was the starring vehicle, but how could a film about the high powered world of racing be boring? Director Renny Harlin certainly found a way of turning an exciting sport into a dull, lifeless event on the big screen. There were aspects of the film that were so far fetched they made me laugh. The joy ride through the streets in their ...
...the only half decent track on there. If I can advise cinemagoers out there, it would be to avoid this like the plague and go and see 'The Fast and the Furious' instead. That film has all the elements that Driven lacked, and definitely takes my chequered flag. ...

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This film sucks! This has got to be the corniest, cheesiest and most predictable film ever made. How can films like this ever get made. Whoever read the script and agreed to spend millions of dollars making this film must be barking mad. There is a scene when one of the drivers crashes and flips upside down into a swamp. The rescue team are too far away (why?), so in order to save his buddy, but lose the race he turns his car around and drives along ...
...just laughed so much. This is the sort of thing that was done in racing pre 1970 and would never happen now. There really are too many scenes like this that make you think “duh”! This is all such a shame as it could have been a really great film if only they had taken out the Hollywood cliche้s. The film would have been better if it was set in the late sixties/early seventies (see: Robbie Williams/Supreme video). It would have added more passion, ...

Scott 28.05.2001 (14.10.2001) · Read full review
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...owner of a copy of Driven through a joke £1 bid on ebay. There was a day left on the auction, surely I would be outbid. Surely. But no, my bid won, I couldn't believe it. Why would the seller even accept such a low bid, I didn't care, I'd got one over on him. Little did I realise he was probably laughing all the way to the bank with his shiny little pound. I should have guessed something was up when no-one else put in a bid. They knew something I ...
...since Sylvester had started turning up in the paddock at every F1 meeting about 7 years ago. He was planning to make a movie about F1, applying the good old rocky formula, racer is coming to end of career, racer gets his chance, mean German/Brit/Scandinavian gets in his way, racer overcomes him as he overcomes his own personal demon and roll titles. Another Stallone triumph in the bag, surely. Then I found out he'd had a wee row with the F1 people ...

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Why oh why did Sylvester think that the story of Cart racing driver would be of interest to the discerning film going public? Give him his dues, there is photographic evidence that he was assisted in making this “gritty” film more realistic and character based by getting insights from Michael Schumacher, Jacques Villeneuve and the like. OK Sly, so what happened? Sylvester Stallone’s reason for making this film was that he loves ...
...approach Sylvester, you were offered sh*tloads of money so you took it! This is no Fast an the Furious (you can see my opinion on that if you so choose). Director: Renny Harlin. (Die Hard 2, so quite frankly should’ve known better) Written By: Sylvester Stallone Cast: Sylvester Stallone plays Joe Tanto Til Schweiger plays Beau Brandenburg Kip Pardue (Remember the Titans) plays Jimmy Bly Burt Reynolds plays Carl Henry Robert Sean Leonard ...

choklatgirl 03.10.2001 (11.10.2001) · Read full review
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Driven is the new Sylvester Stallone movie - he not only stars but also wrote the screenplay for it. It tells the story of an old has-been racing driver who is desperate to get ack intothe racing scene. he gets a call one day from wheel chair bound racing boss Burt Reynolds who wants him to act as co-driver and mentor to his hot new star. Of course Stallone accepts and we have the old guy, new guy relationship building from them. The new star of ...
...german driver(sound familiar?..lol) and not just on the track but off it as well in the form of the obligatory blonde bird who wanders between the two drivers. Will he get te girl and win the championship? Oh, I bet you can't wait to see! Well, I'm not about to tell you but then Stallone wrote it and all he does is keep writing Rocky over and over so you go figure it out. In fact forget the plot altogether because there isn't one really, all this ...

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I was shocked watching this movie because it came to me that Sylvester Stallone had actually made a movie that didn't suck that bad. A young hotshot 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. The themes sadly were no where near original, someone who has retired from there profession comes back to do a job only they can succeed at (Sylvester Stallone), ...
...pressures of their new found fame (Kip Pardue), insert large yawn here. As for the realism...there is none. 1. Girlfriends are not allowed to be in contact with the driver during the race. 2. Not all crashes are huge explosions And 3rd head on crashes don't cause cars to fly hundreds of feet through the air. There are good parts though, great camera shots including fast moving city skylines and tense extreme close ups of drivers speeding by at ...

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When I first watched this film I was unimpressed from the moment the film started. Special effects I found were over the top and did'nt wortk with the film in anyway. All the research done to make this film has clearly gone to waste. Stalone Go back to Rocky. Now Rocky (The greatest films from Stalone). I here he may make a number Six. Any way back to driven, the only thing I liked about the film is the locations for the races, very impressive and ...

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