Unless you like soap operas, you won't like this movie

Rating: 3/10 (4 May 2001)

Driven was a HUGE dissapointment!!
I have waited 5 years for Driven. That's how long ago I heard Sly wanted to make this movie. I always assumed that he wanted to make the classic racing movie... ala the 1968 movie 'Grand Prix'. There were even rumours that he wanted to honour the memory of Arton Senna. Well, instead he made a stupid love triangle movie set around a racetrack.
I can't begin to say how boring, unrealistic and cheezy this flick gets. You want to watch a bunch of digital race cars and blue-screen drivers? This is the movie for you. I could even live through the love stories if the racing scenes were exciting, but they aren't. Typical of modern movies, instead of spending the money to mount cameras on REAL race cars, you get to watch a computer game where the digital effects are obvious.
It's also a great movie if you like advertising. Watch the last race scene and try to count how many of the car sponsors are flashed across the big screen in 10 seconds.
The film is an insult to autoracing. That being said, the bright side is that there isn't much racing IN the movie so the insult doesn't run that deep. You want bad racing cliches? You got 'em. They obviously didn't hire any technical experts. If they did the drivers wouldn't have been shift gears on oval courses. Somehow the winning racer always had a little more throttle left over for the finish. As my brother said, "The guy with the deepest floor-pan won the race!"
If you MUST see this movie, wait until it comes out on DVD, watch the 4 racing sequences (about 15minutes worth) and return it.