Driven (2001): Dir: Renny Harlin / Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kip Pardue, Estella Warren, Burt Reynolds, Gina Gershon: Scene after scene of speeding around a track and wrecking automobiles in gushing style. Title refers to persistence and endurance both professionally and emotionally. Kip Pardue is the headline race car driver who loses his championship and wipes out several times due to pressure. Burt Reynolds plays the big promoter who summons Sylvester Stallone to whip him into shape. Director Renny Harlin often partakes in big budget spectacles such as Cutthroat Island, and here he employs every stereotype within reach. The concept is a yawner structured around repetitious race action including a pointless race about the city streets. Stallone is flat in what appears to be a tailor made role. Pardue has potential but he is in the wrong movie. He plays a guy dealing with the wrong woman and a declining track record. Reynolds's role is thankless and only serves as a reminder that viewers should be watching Smokey and the Bandit instead of this road kill. Estella Warren is given a role that is the equivalent to a male fantasy. Gina Gershon is also wasted here although perhaps had she played the lead female then perhaps it might have had better clout on that end. While the race action is exhilarating, the screenplay is produced into a a film that will likely drive viewers to sleep. Score: 3 / 10

Driven was originally pitched to Formula 1 as a way to crack the US market before the long awaited Grand Prix return to the US in 2000. Fortunately for the F1 administration, they declined to go ahead with the project, a project which has now uncategorically become the worst automotive racing film in history; both in present and in the foreseeable future. Even in millennia from now, when humans have developed extreme degrees of empathy towards failures of past generations, this film will be nothing but a scorched memory on our great civilisation.This film will, undoubtedly, cause you to lose that last finite ounce of faith that you had in Hollywood's ability to convey a true motor-racing film onto the big screen. Dashed will be your optimism and hope, washed away in a bath of tremendous pain, anger and loss. For you shall never be able to enjoy another F1 or Indycar style movie with the disconcerting knowledge that it has been horrendously attempted before in mind-bloggling array of painful acting, shameful dialogue and epilepsy inducing cinematography.This film should not be approached at any time, any close contact with both its cover, disc or start menu may cause a debilitating and horrible emotion that, up to the release of Driven in 2001, was unbeknown to mankind.Please for the love of god ban this film in all UN and non-UN recognised nations, territories, isles, treaties, ice-shelves and water-borne land masses both natural and man-made.

What is a matter with you people? Honestly Everyone that complains about this movie has nothing "real" to sayThe only criticism u can make about this movie is that it over exaggerates Cart Racing, thats it!An so what if it does, its a "Movie" not a documentaryAn this is a real entertaining movieFirst of all its has a superstar cast Stallone Burt Reynolds The music in this film, is the best of any racing film It has something for everyone The storyline is awesome, it shows the pressure an downfalls of making it to the top The special effects are near realistic, they look excellent And it teaches u about winningNow, I know that everyone on here has seen all the classic Racing films, an im saying this deserves to be right there with them

I think they should have Formula One Indy Racing legends such as Danny Sulivan and Al Unser Jr. Unfortunately they did not use either one of them or any other Formula One Indy legends for this movie. Sylvester Stallone should not be in this movie anyhow. Any Formula One Indy legend is the correct replacement for Sylvester Stallone. Estelle Warren maybe a beautiful woman for the movie, but she is not a good actress. It should be Kirsten Dunst or Tara Reid should be in the movie. Or what about Shannen Doherty would be terrific to replace Estelle Warren. Why not try recasting with someone different? It would be terrific if they rethink about casting people.