If you like this movie, seek help

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2003)

Sylvester Stallone wrote "Rocky" a long time ago, and it was fantastic. He even got a best actor nomination. That was then. Since that meteoric rise to fame, he has consistently created films that are as bad as he is an actor.
"Driven" just may be the worst of the bunch. It's the story of a few race drivers who's lives interconnect. All I had to know is the movie's tagline, which reads "Welcome to the Human Race". Stallone is his usual terrible self. Burt Reynolds manages to put forth another lousy performance as a former race driver crippled in an accident. He has his "oscar" scene towards the end where he laments his chair, and still says he'd do it all over again. It was supposed to be dramatic, but I just thought it was funny, maybe the two worst prolific actors of our time in Reynolds and Sly on the screne in the ultimate s***ty drama scene. Young Jimmy Bly, played by some other poor soul, has a crisis of confidence, just like Cruise in "Days of Thunder", not to mention a fued that develops between him and Robert Sean Leonard, who has fallen from "Dead Poet's Society" 14 years ago to working alongside Stallone, Reynolds, and the guy who played Bly.
Fortunately, it all works out in the end. Stallone and some foreign guy get the girls. Jimmy wins it all, and I've collapsed on the floor from a seizure. All in all, it's fun to watch just to see how lousy it is. I give it -10 out of 10. Keep trying Sly. Some day your bound to stumble on your next "Rocky".