Are you kidding?

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2002)

No other movie could be so incredibly unreal in his depiction of the Motor racing world: we have an incredible amount of deliriously fun sentences, images, incidents, racing moments. It's like a videogame, but you are only a viewer. You have to see this and sit through the end of this movie, to understand that probably they have made it just for the fun of it, without any serious reason behind. Otherwise, all the people involved have serious problems with their minds. Most of the incidents are totally unrealistic in dynamics and the infamous rescue from the river scene is incredible: the screenwriter has stolen one of the real dramatic moments of the history of F1 - Lauda at Nurburbring in 1976 - making it a sort of heroic icon of pilots that stop the race to save a collegue who was dying, but in "Driven" all is so totally untrue, false and derivative that it sounds pathetic and disgusting. The only reason to watch the movie is, in fact, Gina Gershon - far sexier than Estella Warren, a sort of patinate beauty that is such only on the cover of the magazines, not in the real life. Both thumbs down for the serious movie lovers, but probably more than watchable for all the popcorn eaters who want to laugh at the excesses of this "driven".