Great Change of Pace for Stallone!!

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2002)

I remember when the trailer for Driven was being shown on tv I told myself that Driven looked cool. I saw Sly on tv promoting it and I decided to check it out. And I am tellin' you I am glad I did. Driven is a good change of pace for Sly, it is just a shame it didn't do as well at the box office as it should have.
Stallone plays Joe Tanto, a retired race car driver, who is brought out of retirement to help a rookie win the championship.
Stallone, unlike most of his other roles, put a lot of heart into this movie, but he was really the no. 2 man, next to Kip Pardue. No offense to Sly, but he is really not the one who carries this movie. Sure he is a hell of an actor, but he was given a second rate position which I feel was both good and bad to the rest of the cast. A lot of this movie entails arguments with a former love(Gina Gershon). This really wasn't productive to the rookie, by any means but really this is about the life of professional race car drivers and the hell that I can only imagine they go through.
The chemistry flowed really well between the characters. The acting was superb by everyone, what an emotional roller coaster ride it was indeed.

The only problem was that the crash scenes were too fake, and this you could tell because special effects were used too much. But over all this movie was not bad at all. Sly has built a reputation it seems for lousy movies in the last 5 years, and to all you Stallone fans out there, it will get better. Personally I haven't seen a bad Stallone movie yet.
One of Stallones VERY BEST.