A 7-time Razzie-nominated box office catastrophe finds a new lease of life in the streaming fast lane

Sylvester Stallone might be one of the most legendary figures in the entire history of the action genre – which comes with the territory when you lend your name to string of all-time classics and box office bonanzas – but it’s not as if the actor is above the odd stinker or two. Or even 10, in fact. However, 2001’s Driven was so bad and failed so hard that a lot of people have probably forgotten it existed at all, which is definitely for the best.

Reuniting with Cliffhanger director Renny Harlin sounded like a decent enough idea on paper, but the filmmaker’s career was also in the midst of a downturn after he’d helmed Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight in the interim. Sure, the latter is a sorely undervalued minor classic, but the former flopped so hard it killed an entire studio.

Armed with a budget reported to be as high as $94 million, the high-octane racing thriller finds Stallone’s veteran driver called back into action in order to mentor an unproven rookie, with personal and professional dramas popping up left, right, and center. It was hard to get a handle on who exactly the film was marketed to, but the answer funnily enough proved to be nobody.

Driven tanked in theaters after earning less than $55 million, before going on to land seven Razzie nominations in the face of a 14 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating. And yet, star-powered extravaganzas have a way of proving themselves immune when streaming subscribers are deciding on what to watch, which has somehow led to the tedious dud ending up as one of the most-watched features on ViaPlay, per FlixPatrol. Stallone has done plenty better, but arguably not too much worse.