Harlin and Stallone Rejoin!

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2006)

After the success of "Cliffhanger" Sylvester Stallone and director Renny Harlin join forces again to make another great movie called "Driven". Released in 2001 along side "The Fast And The Furious" both movies were in the cinema at the same week and they battle together at the box office. The story about a world champion F1 driver named Beau Brandenberg faces a new threat when a new rookie driver named Jimmy Bly joins the opposite side. But with media and female distractions affecting his performance. Former hotshot driver Joe Tanto joins to support and watch Jimmy to stay on track.
Written by Sylvester Stallone in a matter of days and rewritten by another writers in the months that went on, Stallone did the final screenplay for the film. Director Renny Harlin was brought on board to direct putting his another film he was filming at the time "Mindhunters" aside to direct this film for his friend Stallone. Renny Harlin did an excellent job at directing this film and he knows how to keep the film in a fast pace and the film goes really quick.
Along from the great directing and pace, the film has got some of the best special effects and crash sequences even filmed for a film. Renny Harlin put the major crashes in slow mo just to show you how a driver reacts when he crashes. Another thing great about this movie is the great sound and sound effects. If you watch it in DTS sound with a sub woofer, make sure that you strap it down to the floor because it will move across the floor. Even though it went head to head against "The Fast And The Furious" at the box office this movie had better special effects and story line.
This movie will be enjoyed by the whole family it contains very little violence and swearing unlike "The Fast And The Furious". More people around the world today are interested more in normal performance cars instead of F1 cars. but this movie shows an illegal F1 street race in the main street in Chicago. If ripping up the road at 400kp/h is your thing then you will like his movie, I did. 8 out of 10.