Driven

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Summary: HAHAHAHA!
Review: I like car racing... To my humble point of view, this is one of the very worst film I have seen in my life. Everything is absurd, the actors and the story are like the worst tv soap. The caracters shows the most primary psychology you can imagine. Everything is a laughable exageration. Yes, I had a good time seeing this film just to see the incredible number of absurdities and bad sequence one after another. I THINK THIS FILM HOLDS THE ABSOLUTE WORLD RECORD OF the worst scenario. Hollywood at its very worst. A real satiric comedy.

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Summary: ok movie, but the dvd skips
Review: The movie is ok i guess it won't win any awards and story is very weak, but the race scenes are good but the movie skips I bought one and then took it back and exchanged it and skiped in the smane place i tried it in two players. Don't buy it it will skip and you may not as lucky as i was too get your money back after youve tried two dvds.

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Summary: This is a "no brainer"
Review: If you enjoyed Days of Thunder, you will love this movie also. Enjoy!

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Summary: Entertaining DVD with Great features
Review: When I first saw "Driven", I thought it seemed sort of incomplete. Certain characters didn't really fit in with the story, relationships didn't develop into anything. I enjoyed the racing scenes. I'm not knowledgeable about the sport, so I can't critique the realism (or lack of). The racing scenes are exciting and tense, but whenever the characters talk to each other, the scenes seemed to end abruptly.

Renny Harlin has directed some very entertaining movies, one of them was "Cliffhanger", which also starred Sylvester Stallone. He also directed the second "Die Hard" movie. He knows what he's doing when it comes to action flicks. So does Stallone of course, like him or not- he's starred in and wrote some of the most commercially successful action films ever. So why wasn't this movie better?

Many other reviewers here have pointed out something that I will have to concur with. In nearly an hours worth of deleted and extended scenes, we have a chance to see what someone (unwisely) decided was unneccessary to the film. Scene after scene- not of extra, gratuitous racing footage- but of important drama between the characters. The story becomes much more fleshed out and the relationships deepen. No, this probably wouldn't have won any Oscars... But I think it definitely wouldn't have been laughed off the screen by so many critics and viewers.

This DVD really makes good use of the format. The extra scenes also have Stallone's commentary throughout, which gives us even more information about what this movie was like before someone butchered it. Renny Harlin has a running commentary over the feature. There are two documentaries, one is a 15 minute look at the making of the film. The other doc is better, though fairly short, it is about how the special effects were accomplished.

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Summary: Disappointing Movie
Review: If it wasn't for the scences with cars racing and crashing, this would have been one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting was so bad, its laughable. The DVD has some decent extras, but it doesn't make up for the movie itself. I suggest renting this film before shelling out money to buy it.

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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST RACING MOVIES EVER
Review: This movie was awesome. It had non stop action, great surround sound and the best acting I seen from Stallone in years. I think this movie is better than Days of Thunder, so buy it today! Also the sound track is excellent.

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Summary: BEST RACING MOVING SINCE DAYS OF THUNDER
Review: I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE, IT HAD NON STOP ACTION AND EXCELLENT ACTING BY EVERYONE.. THIS IS DEFINTELY ONE MOVIE TO OWN.. I HAVE IT ON DVD AND SURROUND SOUND IS EXCELLENT, EVEN THE SOUNDTRACK IS GOOD.. BUY IT AND YOU WON'T REGRET IT..

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Summary: Release the Director's Cut
Review: With Sylvester Stallone and Renny Harlin behind the wheel, you would expect "Driven" to be more entertaining than it actually is. The deleted scenes on the DVD give you a taste of what might have been. A "director's cut" is definitely in order.

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Summary: Winning is an Attitude
Review: Movie Summary: Joe Tanto is a retired and washed up Grand Prix champion with a colorful past. He is called back into the racing game by the man who tossed him out years before. Joe is needed to help a young could be champion named Jimmy Bly. Jimmy is on the verge of throwing everything away just like Joe did. Joe has a hard time getting close to Jimmy because of Jimmy's manger brother who restricts all access to Jimmy. Eventually Joe and Jimmy become friends. Joe helps Jimmy find out what he is really made of. In the process Joe finds out what he is made of as well.

My Opinion: This is a mildly entertaining story about auto racing and a men finding themselves. The plot of the feature presentation has some holes. We aren't told what happens to Joe or the Luc the reporter. This plot line is just dropped. The deleted scenes contained on this DVD edition fill out this plot line and a couple of others as well. They are interesting to watch because you get to see the evolution of the film. It was a complete story and the editors cut things out for whatever reasons and made it less than a complete story. The racing scenes are fun and it's hard no to root for Jimmy Bly. The acting isn't that great although Stallone does come off as likeable. Overall, this is a mediocre film with a decent DVD release.

DVD Quality: Video: Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1 Very sharp and clear video. Sound: DD5.1 Extras: There are a lot of extras on this DVD. The biggest one for me was the deleted and extended scenes. Most of them are just extended scenes with not much extra information. The deleted scenes however do as Mr. Stallone says in his commentary. They fill out the story. You get to see plot lines finished and questions answered. Other extras include the trailers, documentaries, and a commentary by the director. Menus: The menus were ok. Nothing special.

What You Should Do: Rent this one if you like racing or Sylvester Stallone. It's not one of his best efforts, but it is entertaining. The deleted scenes show how they can cut a story up so that it becomes confusing and unfulfilling. It is also worth a rental for Estella Warren.

Related Movies To Check Out: Days of Thunder, Top Gun, Death Race 2000

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Summary: Skip it Believe Me!
Review: When I heard this movie was coming out, in the Theater, I was so excited. I am a huge race fan, and jump at any chance to see race action on the screen. The endorcement by CART was even more of a plus for me. When I finally saw it on the screen, I could not believe it. I had never been more disappointed by a film. The acting was horrible. The special effects were impressive, but unrealistic. The race scenes were even more unrealistic, and the story did not to flow well. I could not find a connection with any of the carachters. They did not spend time developing them at all and there were just brief comments placed in the most awkward places to try and make up for it. The special effects were well made but they needed to do more studying on how the cars would react in the accidents, or how they react in a race in general. The movie need someone who was more educated in racing to help bring things together. It really had a lot of potential but in the end it fell way short.