RACING CAR PARTS : "Driven" has ample quantities of moralizing, bickering, romancing and racing, but none of it gets below the surface level. There are multiple melodramatic stories in the Stallone-scripted flick. The latest leader on the racing circuit, Beau Brandenberg (Til Sweiger), is being challenged by young Turk, Jimmy Bly, and dumps his longtime girlfriend Sophia (Estella Warner) so he can concentrate on his job. Jimmy, pushed into professional racing by his ambitious brother DeMille (Robert Sean Leonard), is having doubts about his ability to take the pressures of his chosen career. And, he wants Sophia. Ambitious and ruthless race team owner Carl Henry dumps his second driver, Memo Moreno, and brings on Joe Tanto to whip Jimmy into shape. Memo is married to Joe's ex-wife, Cathy (Gina Gershon), who's none too happy about Joe's arrival. Joe is conflicted about his return to auto racing after a near fatal accident years before. Joe is also having a flirtatious professional relationship with beautiful journalist Luc Jones (Stacy Edwards). And there's racing, too, in this high tech, high-speed soap opera.
RACING CAR PARTS : The glue that holds these many stories together is the racing. There is a great deal of noise accompanying the fast-paced, music vid-style visuals of the racing as the story covers the Indy-style racing circuit. The races look good, but the focus rests solely on the principals as the two leaders battle for first place in one race after another. The rest of the field, which includes a bevy of pro drivers, are left to the background, as if there is no other race going on but for those in the lead. If you've ever followed car racing, you know that lots of the excitement in the sport takes place back in the pack. Not so in "Driven." Also, heavy use of computer generated F/X of the many crashes and close calls bring attention to what are obvious animated bits. The CGI effects are nowhere near as seamless as in, say, "Enemy at the Gates," but are integrated into the multi-camera POVs well enough.
RACING CAR PARTS : When former racing star Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) gets a call fromteam owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds), he's not being asked to win races.Henry needs an old pro to act as a blocker for his rising star, rookieJimmy Blye (Kip Pardue, "Remember the Titans"), who's giving CART world champion Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger, "Judas Kiss") some seriouscompetition in "Driven.""Driven" reunites the writer/star (Stallone) and director (Renny Harlin)of Stallone's last hit "Cliffhanger," but the pairing is less successfulthis time around the track.Stallone once again casts himself as a sensitive, damaged pro although we'renever really clued into the trauma of Tanto's past (something about almostgetting killed in a race). He's brought in to mentor Blye, but has hisaccess to the young racer blocked by Blye's ambitious brother/manager Demille (a one-dimensional Robert Sean Leonard).
RACING CAR PARTS : Branderburg, needing to refocus after losing one too many races to a rookie,dumps his fiance Sophia (Estella Warren). Still part of Beau's crew, Sophiastarts up a friendship with Jimmy which Jimmy hopes will turn to romance.When Beau approaches and rewins Sophia at a racing event, Jimmy sets off ina pique, taking a racing car into the streets of Chicago. Tanto followsand cools the hotheaded Blye off so everyone can get down to driving cars.Stallone, who won an Oscar for writing "Rocky" back in 1976, serves up somereal dreck with "Driven." This is the kind of flick that finds two racersseriously endangering the city streets only to have a Yoda/Luke moment andwalk away without so much as a police warning. There's too much stupidspeechifying ('Faith is like a good disease - it's contagious.'), too littlecharacter development, and too many reality-defying moments. Director Harlin appears to be trying to cop Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday" style, but instead achieves a empty flash. CGI effects are so overused that you'll feel like you're inside a video game.
RACING CAR PARTS : Even so, Stallone works in a couple of good bits, such as Tanto'stalent for picking up quarters on the racetrack and the hilariously witchyexchange between Tanto's ex-wife (Gina Gershon, "Showgirls") and new love interest (Stacy Edwards, "The Next Best Thing"). Harlin also does puthis audience inside a race car travelling at speeds of 240 mph, hurtlescrashed car parts at us with glee and turns his sound levels up to 11.Newcomer Cristian de la Fuente is a find as good-natured driver Memo Moreno,Joe's old buddy who just happens to have married his ex-wife. Also promisingis model/synchronized swimmer Warren.Overall, "Driven's" a pretty silly movie, but it does offer some emtpy-headedthrills.==========X-RAMR-ID: 28724X-RT-AuthorID: 1487X-RT-TitleID: 1107198X-RT-RatingText: CDRIVENA film review by Steve RhodesCopyright 2001 Steve RhodesRATING (0 TO ****): *In DRIVEN, directed with his usual pretentious showiness by Renny Harlin (CUTTHROAT ISLAND) and written with heavy-handed clichés by Sylvester Stallone, fashion models drive fast cars on the world's racing circuit. Jimmy Blye (Kip Pardue) is the rookie fighting the defending champ, Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger), for the crown and his girl, Sophia Simone (Estella Warren).
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