Drive Hard Reviews
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
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
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
[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
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
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