SummaryA high-tech action drama set in the dangerous, exhilarating world of open-wheel racing, Driven centers on the lives and careers of four drivers chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. (Warner Brothers)
Directed By:Renny Harlin
Written By:Jan Skrentny, Neal Tabachnick, Sylvester Stallone
Driven
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
29
User score
Mixed or Average
5.1
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
29
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
46% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
63
The movie is so filled with action that dramatic conflict would be more than we could handle, so all of the characters are nice.
50
Whenever the tires stop screeching and the fenders slamming, the story lands in a brutal pile-up of cliches.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.1
31% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
43% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
26% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Aug 11, 2025
7
more about the attitude of people in the industry than about the racing itself, it feels like the film wanted to capture a little bit of everything and it succeeded, love, business, injuries, young and old, pathos and motivation in this film there is everything, and this can alienate those who only need racing and racers
42
Between Stallone's soap opera of a script and Renny Harlin's speed-obsessed visuals, we're never really shown much more than fast cars and obsessed drivers.
40
Driven is recommended only to those gentle souls who want to know what it looks like to crash into a wall at 200 mph.
25
Gas -- the hot air variety -- is exactly what Driven is made of.
20
It's not quite as bad as "Cutthroat Island," I'll grant you, but it's woefully close.
10
An appallingly dull film set in the world of professional racing, director Renny Harlin and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone have found a way to drain all the adrenaline out of the sport.
Jun 2, 2024
5
The casting and production quality is great. If you like cheesy sports movies the.this will entertain you. Sadly the screenplay falls flat and none of the main characters ever feel fleshed out enough to truly root for any of them. The CGI has aged poorly in 2024 and the overwhelming amount of non stop blasting music tracks never quite allows any of the more the dramatic scenes to breath. in spite of these criticisms it is very watchable and passed the time.
May 15, 2014
2
This has to be one of the worst movies about car racing and sports in general. The only bright spot in this movie is Sly and solid racing sequences that help you forget for a while how silly this movie really is.
Jan 29, 2020
1
this movie was terrible and Hilarious, the scene where the 2 drivers fight over the girl screamed CW teen bean drama, it made me LOL, the movie is nothing like days of thunder the actors in the movie are terrible with the exception of Stallone and Burt Reynolds, it also just straight up has a bad plot, and because it is bad I no reason to care about the movie or the characters and that is the biggest issue with the movie even b race movies have better plots Slys character is written okay, but I wish the other characters had better stories and actors for their characters they come off as childish at times.
May 16, 2014
1
My God. This film is awful. Stallone was an awkward presence in Formula 1 circles during the late 90's when he was seriously considering making a movie about the world's most exotic sport. Thankfully it was eventually deemed too expensive, and instead he turned his attention to the world of CART - America's own cut-price version of Formula 1. Stallone plays a washed-up ex-race driver, which is hilarious in itself. Anyway, the plot is neither here nor there, it's just plain bad. But what is truly awful about this film, and also a slap in the face to all race fans, are the action sequences. Both CART and Indylight cars are used to film the racing scenes, and as any race fan could tell you, the difference between the two is like chalk and cheese. Imagine filming a single-prop Cessna as stand in for 747 Jumbo. Or having Kevin James play Superman to Cavill's Clark Kent. It's that bad.
Feb 12, 2015
0
This one of the worst films I've ever watched. Terrible CGI, and crashes in every race. The explosions were from a Michael Bay film. And if those crashes were IRl, the drivers could be dead. I wonder what the F1 version would have been like
Production Company:
- Franchise Pictures
- Epsilon Motion Pictures
- Trackform Film Productions
- Champs Productions
- Mel's Cite du Cinema
Release Date:Apr 27, 2001
Duration:1 h 56 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Get ready for the race of your life.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 3 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination




























