I like Stallone and Harlin but...

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2001)

This movie is more proof that director Renny Harlin (Die hard 2, Cliffhanger) hasn't been able to get back on his feet ever since he directed "Cutthroat Island", THE BIGGEST FLOP IN CINEMATIC HISTORY! Costing a mere 115 million to make, and grossed a whopping 11 million!
When I saw the trailers for "Driven", I thought it would be your average no brainer summer flick, with intense big budget action sequences that had you at the edge of your seat! Boy was I wrong...
The racing scenes aren't intense at all. Part of the reason for this is the fact that the CGI (which I thought would be great) was like watching a Play Station 2 video game! The music is relentless and not thrilling whatsoever. The script, by Sylvester Stallone, has little character development through dialogue, but contains some conflict and originality, I'll give Stallone that. Stallone's acting wasn't bad and neither were some of the other performances, but Burt Reynolds, he's about as dull as they come. Who let that guy act?
Harlin changes angles every two seconds and each shot is too frantic. It gets to be annoying. But what really did it for me was the pathetically cheesy CGI.
I like Stallone and Harlin, but...there really isn't much here, and man am I glad I only spent $2.00 on renting it instead of seeing it in the theaters.

It wasn't necessarily the script that made this a bad film, but the production team. On a more positive note, I don't like car racing, I never have, so maybe people who do will like this movie. If you aren't one of those people however, skip this and go rent "THE USUAL SUSPECTS", now there's a great film!