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Review: Driven, starring Adam Driver

A Clever Concept Driven Too Far

Driven is an interesting concept movie, at least on paper.  Adam Driver stars as himself, and the story clearly intends to be an unflinching look at how the film industry grinds up its brightest stars.  What could be a somber autobiopic, however, is given a "This is the End" treatment when an obsessive fan, Olivia--clearly a gender-swapped John Oliver--replaces Driver's chauffeur, kidnaps him, and leads half of Hollywood on a wild car chase through the streets.

The film is, mostly, a resounding "okay."  Alas, Driver's attempts to write a cracking action film with snappy dialogue veers too often into broad, unfunny punchlines: a director who utterly delights in his predicament and scrambles to replace him with Ben Affleck; a running gag involving a rogue craft services bus; and a bizarre mob plot that forces the now-heroic Driver to team up with his erstwhile kidnapper to save the day.  All of this culminates in a literal and figurative 50-car pileup of plots that left me more confused than satisfied. 

Driver would have been better off picking a lane:  angsty biopic or action joyride.  Instead he tries to have it both ways, and drives a carload of potential straight off a cliff.

2/5 Stars

Hi Chad,

Just to follow up, I recently downloaded the game onto my laptop--a Microsoft Surface Book--and it's running just fine.  Placing field cards works without a problem!  The laptop is not optimized for gaming, so my mouse drags a bit, but if I switch to Tablet mode and use the touch screen, the game is perfectly playable.

Thanks again for looking into the bug.  If it's not resolved at this point, that's okay, since I am now able to play the game.

Cheers,

Jennifer

Understandable.  I may be overdue for a new video card, anyway! ^.^  But I appreciate you taking a look, regardless.  Thank you.

Hi, sorry it took me a few days to get back to you.  I have not seen any objects fall through the floor.

My video card is very old--an AMD Radeon R7 200 Series.  Also, I did a video capture of the glitch.  The top of the screen is a little cut off but you should be able to see what's going on.  I try to drag the field card onto the field but it just slides back into my hand.  Halfway through the video I switched the game settings from "drag to place card" to "click to place card" and the results are the same.

Video may be seen here:  https://www.screencast.com/t/JFWMW8lntv2

Please let me know if the link doesn't work.

Thanks!

-Jennifer

The field card varied; it was always the first field card introduced into the deck, but it happened when  I tried the knights route, the kobolds, and the amphibians.  I didn't try the Anubis path.
I'm using a Windows 7 machine, if that is useful to know.

Hi Mars, this worked!  I went into global settings and upped the quota for allowing data storage from "local".  It was previously at zero.  Now the game is saving just fine.  Thank you again!

Ver 2.5 for Windows.  I downloaded it on Oct. 2.

Hi, I'm working my way through this game for the first time and for some reason, it won't let me place field cards.  When I get to that section of the tutorial, and the field card is highlighted so that it's the only thing I can interact with, I try to drag it to the field (where the big circle is highlighted) but it keeps springing back to my hand.  I've tried clicking, I've tried dragging, but it won't activate.  And removing the field card from my deck doesn't help because then I can't win the battle.  Am I missing some important step?

Hi, I can't seem to find a way to save the game.  I tried several keys but nothing seemed to bring up a "save game" option.  I even tried closing out the game immediately after a new day started, wondering if it had an auto save feature, but starting the file up again reset the game.  Any ideas?  Or is this one of those games where you're supposed to "start fresh" every time?