Driven (DVD)

This is a review of the car racing DVD by Sly Stallone. Movie Driven revisits the world of motor car racing twelve years after Tom Cruise?s Days of Thunder graced our screens. A lot has happened in twelve years and the technology has advanced enough to make Driven a promising project. As would be expected Sylvester Stallone plays the main character Joe Tanto a car racing driver who is persuaded to come out of retirement by long term friend Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds). Henry is manager of an racing car team and sees Tanto as the perfect coach for rookie driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue). Bly is a promising young driver who has a real chance of winning the ...  Read the complete review

Driven was the film that briefly stopped the box office slump of Sly Stallone in the USA. Alright it was only for a week and the film just scraped over $30 million eventually but hey it's a start. The film has got mixed reviews everywhere, none saying it's fantastic, some saying it's entertaining and some saying it's just plain awful. Well you have to bear in mind that some reviewers have a standard reply to anything featuring Sly Stallone. Even his re-make of Get Carter is nowhere near as bad as you may have heard. I like Stallone films for what they are and that's the mindset I had going into this film. I also like Renny Harlin film's ...  Read the complete review

I should have known when it said that Sylvester Stallone had written this movie that it really wouldn't be worth watching. Well, ok I did know which is why I had no intention of watching it until someone came wandering into one of my labs late last night with the movie burnt onto a CD...gotta love the internet. Anyway, work forgotten(as usual) a group of us crowded around a terminal to watch Stallone et al. doing the Rocky thing all over again... That is no word of exaggeration, this really was like watching Rocky again. Sylvester Stallone seems to have one script idea and just keeps changing the locations. There is not one original idea in this movie and ...  Read the complete review

Driven Very much an indifferent film, driven is the kind of movie the vast majority of people normally hate, yet I always seem to very much like. A simple no brainer, if you like intelligent and thrilling movies then look away now, as Driven will do nothing to fill you with thought provoking concepts and intelligent plot twists. Acting as the means to a return for Sylvester Stallone to the big screen, this first role (to the best of my knowledge) since last years decent if unspectacular ?Get carter 2001?, Driven is a racing flick with nothing to separate it from hundreds before it. When the one time flourishing career of Rookie driver ...  Read the complete review

Driven is the 2001 film which seemed to many to be like a Days Of Thunder type film, featuring a young shot shot driver who gets a bit too big for his boots. The film was met critically and commercially with negativity, and I have to admit that I am in two minds about the film. Seasoned veteran rally car driver Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) has his work cut out for him when he is urged to compete once more in order to reign in young hot shot driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) and help him towards a crown by being his team mate on the track. However, things are not plain sailing as Bly gets into trouble on and off the track, and Tanto has ghosts of his own as his ...  Read the complete review