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Title: Oh for godsake.
Review: In lieu of Rocky 6 (or wherever he last left off), Sylvester Stallone takes his "tried and true" screenwriting formula and applies it to CART racing. Nothing is gained in the translation. Same old thing: young precocious talent must fight lack of confidence in order to be a champion. Our hero is played by Kip Pardue, an actor with all the burning charisma of a CK-1 model. So I guess the girls will like this. Maybe. Myself, I enjoyed the eye-candy provided by Estella Warren, Stacy Edwards, and Gina Gershon. The list of what I DIDN'T enjoy is too volumnious to itemize here; let's just mention the [bad]dialogue, terrible rock soundtrack, and whizzing, mostly computer-animated photography and leave it at that. Thousands of starving filmmakers can't get their stuff shown even at Sundance, while *Driven* plays in multiplexes nationwide. Sweet dreams, kids. By the way: a movie about professional racing that doesn't spend any serious time in the pit is, well, not really a movie about racing.
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