The internet did it so you don’t have to. Here’s the worst racing movie in history, Driven, edited down to two-minute form—only the crashes.
Driven is not merely the worst racing movie ever. It’s one of the worst Hollywood movies ever produced. The plot is insipid, the characters loathsome, the action unwatchable. One critic compared watching Driven to contracting a horrible skin disease, with the disease being preferable.
If there are any entertaining moments at all in Driven, they might be in the crash scenes. Each one is a hilarious violation of physics, good taste, and common sense. It’s as though producer Sylvester Stallone and director Renny Harlin (who should both be in jail for this, frankly) were attempting to invent a new form of pornographic violence but missed. Viewers will in no way be moved—except to howls of laughter.
Thank you to JaunKym (YouTube channel here) for distilling Driven to its most watchable form.
http://youtu.be/NwqQlrb4XIE
MCG, tell us how you really feel about this movie…
MCG is being generous. What an awful movie. The clip is hilarious though.
And I thought “Days of Thunder” was stupid.
Rotten Tomatoes rating 14 percent. I rest my case.
Somebody somewhere thought that was good special effects. That’s the most pathetic part.
I like how the cars gain kinetic energy throughout the crash — suddenly leaping into the air, etc.
This clip neatly sums up my whole up my whole stance toward Hollywood in general, over hyped, over rated AND over here.