Harlins worst film

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2005)

Driven is the weakest movie directed by Renny Harlin. There are some things that work in the film, but those few scenes are strongly over powered by the weak aspects of the production.
First the things I liked: car crashes. Yes, Harllin is very good at doing and directing action scenes and it shows on those crashes, even tough they are as unreal as they can be. I give my points to the crashes. that's about all I liked.
So my dislikes: poor script. Seen it millions of times: retired "master" (in this case Stallone) has to show the ropes to the new promise (Kip Pardue). Nothing new under the sun, literally nothing. Stallone has written Rocky all over, he just has changed boxing to car sports.
Special effects: As I said, I liked the crashes, but some of the CGI used in this film is beyond amateurish. The slow motion rain drops is good idea, but it's killed with a poor execution.
Music wasn't anything spectacular, actually I don't even remember a note of it, so I guess it wasn't distracting.
If you want to see a good Harlin/Stallone film I recommend Cliffhanger, it did everything better.