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Driven

Driven

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fun and Entertaining
Review: Driven is a pretty much your typical racing flick. There are rivalries between drivers, people who go 'way back' and therefore 'owe each other something', ticked off ex-wives, the pain of old failures still remembered, and the pressure to perform more today than yesterday. Typical racing movie drama junk. Of course, you are also treated to lots of crash scenes with stuff flying around, junk landing on spectators, things bursting into flames, and even a car that flys off and somehow ends up landing in a pond. Like I said, typical racing movie blather.

The thing that elevates Driven above all of that is that, with all of it's cheesiness, it is still entertaining. If you like special effects you will love this movie. There are some really great computer generated effects that include: showing how the cars crash together, some decent tunnel vision stuff from the POV of the driver, and a really cool effect that shows the rain drops hitting the drivers visor and being pushed off by air currents. There is also an extra on the DVD of a particular scene that was cut, which included a car blowing up completely - created entirely by computer. It is a morph technology, and the scene looks great. It's a shame that they had to cut it. They also spend some time showing you how the technology works.

Overall, Driven is cheesy and without plot that you will care about - but it is still fun!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst Stallone movie ever!
Review: Driven is one of the more pitiful films I've ever seen in my life. Bad acting, clichéd plot, ridiculous action sequences, these are only the beginning of the problems with this film. Sylvester Stallone has not had a good film since Cliffhanger back in 1992. Overall, this movie is pretty much abysmal. If you were a die-hard action fan who doesn't care how stupid a plot is, or how horrible the acting is, you'd like this movie. Everyone else though, stay away. Far, far, away.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Two words...Gigantic [Flop]
Review: When I saw that this movie was being first made I had a small glimmer of hope. A movie about F1. Then F1 said no way and the movie moved on to CART. My hopes quickly diminished from there.

A friend said that this was a good movie. I knew he smoked a lot of pot, but I didn't know he smoked that much.

It starts with ridiculous racing footage. There are absolutely no laws of physics that apply to these cars. Suddenly whenever a car wants to catch up with the one in front he magically gets about a 300 shot of nitrous for more horsepower to instantly catch up and then cannot pull away.

Cars are constantly crashing and bursting into flames. Bright yellow flames, which cannot happen at any professional level because methanol burns blue.

There are absolutely no safety personnel at any of the tracks, so the drivers have to stop from 200 mph in about 50 feet to save the other driver in danger, nevermind that they would be lucky to stop within 500 feet in real life.

That doesn't even mention the awful acting. The acting in a typical Godzilla movie is far better.

For the sake of your sanity, please stay away.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Sly, You have done open wheel racing a disservice
Review: I have been a fan of open wheel racing for a very long time and this movie just doesn't do the sport justice. First the plot is lame. It's pretty much a remake of Days of Thunder. (I kept looking for Tom Cruise.) You know, young hot shot gets help from crusty older man. Young hot shot meets girl, young hot shot gets girl. (Oh excuse me, Stalone's character gets girl, since he wrote the movie & is the star.)

Stalone sniffed around Formula I for a season and they refused his offer to make a movie. Initially, I was disapointed, but now I see they made the right decision. Then he hung around Cart for a year. Obviously, he was too busy playing the celeb to really pay attention to the sport.

Besides, the plot that's been done before, let me tell you technically what's wrong with the movie.

1. A lot of the in-car shots are sped up. You really don't need that in these cars, they're quite exciting enough, thank you.

2. You see flames from fires when cars crash. Cart/Champ cars burn methanol, it burns clear, you don't see flames.

3. I remember at least 2 crashes where cars end up in water. I can't remember when I've seen a crash in Champ, Cart or Formula 1 where anyone has ended up in the water!!!!

4. Oh, and while the cars are in the water, they're on fire. I've already mentioned that you can't see methanol when it burns and do you know how you put out a methanol fire? With water!!!

5. Plus the crashes themselves are just too over the top. About once a year you'll get a crash where a car will fly through the air like these seem to have done every time.

If you want a good race movie go get a VHS copy of Gran Prix or Le Mans. (I don't think they have been put out on DVD yet. Too bad.) Or if you want some lighthearted car action, then get Days of Thunder or Gumball Rally. There is nothing about this film to recommend it!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Incredible Movie!
Review: I was already a racing fan, but seeing this movie really was incredible, from both a racing standpoint, and an acting standpoint. The story was a little flat, but the special effects more than made up for it. Gina Gershon is an INCREDIBLE actress, and plays the role of Cathy very VERY well... And with the DVD, you get to see a little more of the actress thanks to the added scenes. Only on DVD ^_^

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great movie...... Even if your not into car raceing!!!!
Review: Iam not a fan of car raceing eather,,,,,,
This movie is GREAT!!! you should hear it in SOUROND SOUND!!!!!!! If you have the right stero and have the volume just right you can close your eye and it LITERLY feels like your their!!!.
Anyway the movie is quite oranized it so good youde actully think about doing this for a liveing yourself! lol
Has a grea set of actors, to bad it didnt get the popularity it deserves!!!!!!!
I would buy it, its a great collitable DVD!!!!
and how about a Driven II!!!!!!!??????

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertaining and inspiring!
Review: the movie might have some technical story lags but definately its a very entertaining movie and keeps you binded to ur seat...its one of those feel good movies..about perfomances..sly stallone is good but i wish he got a longer role..estella warren is damn damn hot(!!) and the rest of the cast is pretty good..highly recomended for a lonely evening at home.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Movie!!!
Review: I am ont that is not into racing at all, but I really enjoyed this movie a lot. It had a lot action and kept glued to the T.V the whole time.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Great Movie!
Review: Driven is a movie about a young, troubled Formula 1 racer, who gets help from a retired man (Stallone), who was a great racer himself, back in the day.

This movie has the craziest crash scenes, some of the best actors, and is overall a great movie. While having a small romance twist to it, Driven is well-balanced.

The DVD has many great features, including about a half hour or more of deleted scenes, how the movie was made, at least an hour of the director's comments and way more.

Fans of racing or not, this is an awesome movie for everyone.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Driven to madness....
Review: I can't believe it.... Stallone, how could you write this...? ..., sheer B-Movie, my friends! At least i could laugh a lot. THey should sell it as a comedy. But, as they did not, I rented it thinking it would be a good car racing movie. And I assure you: it is not.


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