Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24497 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-04-08
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, German, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Italian, French, Finnish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese, Icelandic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Motorsport movies have a lousy track record, so it's not surprising that Driven joins the ranks of previous race-car clunkers like Grand Prix, Le Mans, Bobby Deerfield and Days of Thunder. To varying degrees, all of these films offer spectacular racing footage (especially Le Mans), but what is surprising is that Driven was written by its star and co-producer Sylvester Stallone, who shows virtually no sign of the talent that created Rocky over a quarter-century earlier. Under the tepid direction of Renny Harlin, this superficial speedfest fulfils its primary obligation--the racing sequences are adequately exciting, despite the Cuisinart editing and a glaring lack of kinetic continuity. But whenever this adrenaline-pumped drama gets off the track, well... let's just say it's a hybrid of Top Gun and Days of Thunder, but makes those Tom Cruise vehicles look masterful by comparison.

Stallone's a retired Grand Prix champion, called back into action by his disabled crew chief (Burt Reynolds) to boost the career of a hotshot driver (Kip Pardue) who's trailing a German ace (charismatic Til Schweiger) in the current 20-race season. The female contingent consists of a reporter (Stacy Edwards, too talented for this tripe) who's writing about "male domination in sports"; Stallone's embittered, remarried ex-wife (Gina Gershon, parodying her bitchy persona); and the requisite kewpie doll (Estella Warren) who comes between Boy Wonder and the reigning champ. It's airhead melodrama all the way, so you'd better enjoy the breakneck racing scenes--including a ludicrous prototype-racer joyride through downtown Chicago--or you'll blow a piston on your sprint to the bad-movie finish line. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
German
English
Region 2
Audio Commentary
Additional Scenes
The Making Of
Conquering Speed Feature

Synopsis
DRIVEN takes viewers into the world of automobile racing with Sylvester Stallone playing a retired expert who coaches a young racer. Stallone's Joe Tanto is brought out of retirement to mentor Jimmy Blye (newcomer Kip Pardue), a rising young superstar in the racing circuit. Featuring amazing racing action and crashes, DRIVEN knows how to deliver.

Customer Reviews

Unmitigated Poo.
Really, this is is worst film I've seen in a long time. The effects are obviously and poorly computer generated with no bearing on real-world physics.

It's more like World Indycar than F1, and is full of racing inaccuracies.

There is very little character building, and all but one or two characters are competley one dimentional. And it's all pretty predictable.

Avoid.

Don't expect too much
As a racing fan who doesn't expect too much from a racing film (has there ever been a really good one?), I thought this was really entertaining. While the plot may be paper thin with stereotypical characters, I particularly enjoyed the on track action (with Montoya and Blundell being the driving doubles of the lead characters). The racing taken from the CART series is great to watch although hopelessly inaccurate, particularly the physics-defying crashes, but I still enjoyed the film overall. This film is worth watching alone purely for the on screen appearances of Montoya, Tracy, Papis, Franchitti and all the other CART regulars at the time!

Driven to Distraction!
This is without doubt the worst movie I have ever seen. My wife bought it as a gift because I am interested in motor racing. Therein lies the problem!
Apart from the lack of plot and wooden acting it is clear that nobody involved in making the film has a clue about motor racing!
For example:
As is common in Hollywood movies it appears that if you are involved in so much as a parking shunt your car will explode in a ball of orange flame - here we see a car crash into a lake and explode in a ball of yellow flame with burning fuel spreading over the water - but these cars run on methanol which burns with an almost invisible pale blue flame and mixes with water so it wouldn't float on water to burn that way.
Next is the Chicago street race scene - how did they start the cars? They need external assistance because they don't have starter motors or batteries.
I could go on but I'm starting to sound like an anorak!
Some movies are so bad thay are good to watch - this doesn't even make that category. Don't waste your money on it! Not even £1. My copy went in the bin!!