The experience is like watching an unprepared teenager fake his way through different classes at once: briefly fascinating, mostly idiotic.

| Original Score: D | Sep 14, 2018

Very disappointing potboiler that runs out of gas far too quickly.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2014

Delivers a goodly amount of good natured action fun but in the end suffers from being just too low-key for its own good.

| Oct 5, 2014

"Drive Hard" is just a bore, barely registering as a movie, which is a shame, because with the oddball cast and somewhat notable director, it could have been fun and trashy.

| Original Score: D | Oct 3, 2014

You know there's something fundamentally wrong with Drive Hard less than five seconds in: It opens on a shot of star Thomas Jane sporting an absurd mop of a hairdo that might have been borrowed from a Raggedy Ann doll.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 3, 2014

A deeply terrible would-be action comedy that looks, sounds, and feels like an 80s cheap and cheesy made-for-cable movie.

| Oct 3, 2014

Sputtering on fumes almost from the start, it captures a well-earned checkered flag as one of the worst films of 2014.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 2, 2014

Does a lot of revving in order to juice its jokey, violent bad-boy cred, but it never gets out of the driveway.

| Oct 2, 2014

Approximately as unforgettable as its title ...

| Oct 2, 2014

Normally, I would have no objection to being trapped in a car with John Cusack, but that was before I saw "Drive Hard."

Full Review | Oct 2, 2014

Feels like the work of a computer program that analyzed dozens of popular movies in different genres, then self-generated a screenplay that tried to incorporate elements from all of them.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2014

[It] doesn't exactly work up a sweat devising an interesting plot villains, but the badinage between the odd couple ... makes the time pass painlessly enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2014

It's dumb. It's ugly. And yet it's not all bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2014

Essentially a chase movie infused with buddy comedy elements, the film is a fast-paced, mildly entertaining lark that's chiefly enlivened by Cusack's droll performance.

| Oct 2, 2014

Falls a little flat, never quite secure in its insanity and perhaps a bit too ambitious with its screenplay, which spends more time building secretive allegiances than it does tending to the visceral highlights.

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2014

Cusack and Jane look like they're improvising much of the time, and while that doesn't lead to a better movie, the off-the-cuff approach is the best thing in the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2014

Just as egregious as its retrograde sexual politics, however, is the film's distinct lack of energy or wit -- shortcomings that ultimately render it merely a cruddy B-movie throwaway.

| Oct 1, 2014

This movie is so colorless, odorless, and (especially) tasteless, so devoid of mass or substance, that it's easy to forget even while it's still playing.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 1, 2014

If you're not expecting too much, Drive Hard is mindlessly entertaining, but it lacks that spark of madness that might have made it truly fun.

| Sep 30, 2014

Drive Hard is the action-film equivalent of one of those folks who relentlessly speak of having it tough all over as they plan their third yearly vacation.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 28, 2014