Driven (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.2/10   

Director:

Renny Harlin

Escritores (WGA):

Jan Skrentny (story) &
Neal Tabachnick (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 abril 2001 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Drama | Deporte

Frase comercial:

Get ready for the race of your life.

Plot:

A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give him guidance.

Plot Keywords:

Romantic Rivalry | Teamwork | Car Crash | Automobile Racing | One Word Title

Premios:

1 win & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Man, I wanted this movie to be good...

Reparto

Sylvester Stallone	...	Joe Tanto
Burt Reynolds	...	Carl Henry
Kip Pardue	...	Jimmy Bly
Stacy Edwards	...	Lucretia Clan
Til Schweiger	...	Beau Brandenburg
Gina Gershon	...	Cathy Heguy
Estella Warren	...	Sophia Simone
Cristián de la Fuente	...	Memo Moreno
Brent Briscoe	...	Crusher
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Demille Bly
Verona Pooth	...	Nina (as Verona Feldbusch)
Jasmin Wagner	...	Ingrid
Chip Ganassi	...	Team Owner
John Della Penna	...	Team Manager
Dan Duran	...	Commentator #1

También conocida como:

À toute vitesse (Canada: French title)
Champs (USA) (working title)
Formula One (USA) (working title)
Into Thin Air (USA) (working title)
Ruutulippu (USA) (working title)
Alta velocidad (Argentina) (Colombia) [es]
Driven (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and some intense crash sequences.

Duración:

116 min

País:

USA | Canada | Australia

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #38169) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | Australia:M (TV rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Brazil:12 | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago Motor Speedway - 3301 S. Laramie Avenue, Cicero, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Franchise Pictures

Trivialidades:

Sophia Simone does some synchronized swimming moves in the movie. Estella Warren who plays this character had been a synchronized swimmer for many years.

Errores:

Errores Reales: In the scene where the drivers are rescuing Moreno in the lake, flames are clearly visible on the water. Methanol fuel, as used by CART, burns with an invisible flame, and is water soluble. Water is actually the preferred extinguishing agent for methanol.

Citas:

Carl Henry: What about the fear?
Joe Tanto: It's gone.
Carl Henry: The fear is never gone.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "HBO First Look: Driven (#8.3)" (2001)

Banda de Sonido:

I'm Not Driving Anymore

Man, I wanted this movie to be good...

As a big auto racing fan, CART in particular, I awaited this movie since the mid-90's when it was discussed as a Formula One movie. However, Formula One wouldn't allow the access that it did for Grand Prix in 1966, so the director defaulted to the North American CART series. CART allowed unprecedented access to its venues, races, paddock, announcers, drivers, sponsors, etc. But this movie fails in that it is nothing more than an auto racing cliché. As a fan, it's hard to rebuff the blood sport aspect of the sport to those who are not fans. The crashes are incredibly unrealistic, some of the tracks are non-existent and the drivers are paper thin. The scene near the swimming pool with the blonde vixen doing some sort of goofy water aerobics is pathetic. The part where Jimmy Bly steals a car (that happens to be filled with fuel indoors and doesn't need an external starter to run) and drives it through the Chicago streets with Stalone in tow is just ridiculous. And to they get arrested or even prosecuted for this action? No, they just are forced to convey one of the stupidest dialogues in the history of racing movies.

The CART series is in serious trouble in real life. A movie about the excitement of the series, the strategy, the action and the pageantry of racing could have boosted the series back to national respectability. However, this movie just hinders its descent into oblivion with the Can-Am series. It could have been so much more.