Driven

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Summary: Driven Rules !
Review: one hell of well- made entertaining movie !
do not focus on story, JUST enjoy speedy action
then, No regret.. No doubt !

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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I am a die-hard racing fan. I like everything from NASCAR to 1/4 midgets. However, this movie, while some of the scenes are very well done (driving in Champ Cars through Downtown Chicago), but the story is lacking. Movie is very comparablable to Days of Thunder where you have old crew chief helping young driver. Here you have old driver helping young driver. Days of Thunder definately had a little more story and better racing scenes as they travelled to Dover, Rockingham, Darlington and Daytona amoung other places. Most of the footage for Driven was shot in and around Chicago. Look at most of the starter's stand and see it's the same thing, just different signage. Most racing action was filmed at Chicago Motor Speedway in Cicero. Also Days of Thunder have hatred turn to friendship, Driven does, but not as strongly. Bottom line is that Driven will not help CART like Days of Thunder helped NASCAR.

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Summary: Stallone is Provolone -- CHEEZE -- BAD FOR THE SPORT
Review: I have never been witness or had to sit through a more painful 88 minutes. I'm a racing fan, but this flick did nothing but denegrate the sport to the level of smut. Stallone clearly didn't have a knowledge of the sport nor did the director possess the intelligence to understand how to visually leverage the spectacle, technology and thrill that open-wheel racing delivers to fans around the world. It is an embarassement to the sport. They should ban these people from any race tracks.

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Summary: Seriously, the worst movie I've ever seen!
Review: I was not expecting much at all from a Stallone movie, but still, a friend of mine, also fan of F1 racing, finally convinced me to go to see it. Not only is there no story at all, but even car racing sequences are totally unrealistic. It makes you wonder whether or not you are watching a parodia of another even more useless movie. At least, when Austin Powers was parodying James Bond, one could laugh. Here, you don't, and you'd find yourself regularly checking your watch just to find out that there is still way too much time left for enduring this terrible movie! Regardless of who you are, save your bucks for a drink or two when you attend a real race.

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Summary: Feel the wind.
Review: A new star and a old star cooperate and get the top.
A race scene is very exciting. Especially, driving on a public way is unblievable.
Indeed, a story line is poor, but you must be satisfied only with the racing scenes.
I think acting is good. You won't be disappointed.
Thank you.

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Summary: Terrible Movie
Review: I'm a huge fan of CART racing, and eagerly anticipated this movie, and was extremily disappointed when I attended the premier. Not only was the story terribly weak, but the racing scenes were unrealistic and unbelievable. When I think of the great things that could have been done to show the true nature of this great sport, I'm extremly dismayed by Harlin and Stallone's poor attempt. I would have to guess that neither of them understand or are fans of auto racing.

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Summary: On the Intentional Fallacy
Review: Re the theatrical review: popcorn is no substitute for a steak dinner and this is no substitute for Sense & Sensibility - but it really is tasty popcorn, and "kewpie doll" is (ironically) the only genuine (olympic) athlete in the movie, and worth every penny of every minute on the screen. (Though, the ludicrous street racing should have been cut by any grownup still in Hollywood.) 'Nuff said.

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Summary: Not great...but not bad
Review: Driven is a conundrum. It starts out as a movie with little action, it's slow as it gets going. Stallone tries hard in his writing of the screenplay to establish characters that are familiar with each other, have past history together, and in some cases, have conflicts. This is good. But it gets tedious and his talent as a writer seems to have severly waned since his efforts on Rocky. Then the movie moves into a more racing action orientation, this is good too, but the character development is kind of left behind. Director Renny Harlin is notorious for sacrificing character subject matter in favor of action scenes. As expected, the racing scenes in this movie are energetic and powerful at most times, but they feel fake in some ways. The computer enhanced bullet speed, Matrix-like, crash scenes are very impressive, making you catch every angle of the disaster, a true rubber neckers dream. If you pick apart this movie you can find flaw after flaw. But watching it from beginning to end without any kind of judgment can be hard. Some of the flaws stand out so much it's impossible not to notice. But at the end you do get the feeling you were entertained for the most part. A better movie like this would be Days of Thunder, although not a great movie either. True racing fans will either love Driven or hate it. The traveling scenarios that these racers take up as they move from country to country, racing in one competition after another shows how grueling these racing tours can be on the drivers and the people that do it with them. I give this movie three stars because I believe it had great potential to be better. Unfortunately, I would only recommend buying this movie if you are a true racing fan of the CART series. Otherwise, you may be disappointed with its cumbersome treatment of the characters and over played crash scenes.

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Summary: THE WORST EVER
Review: I don't feel like spending many words about this 2 hours video clip. The characters are just puppets sayng theyr lines, the cut is so fast that u rarely see a shot lasting more than 4 seconds (even dialogue scenes). There is no moment without a pop song. The cgi effects are horrible... I just wanted it to end as soon as possible...

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Summary: RACING FANS REJOICE!
Review: An excellent movie for fans of CART. If you don't like auto racing stay away.