Drive
FOX | Release Date: April 15, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
12
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJeff Jensen
Season 1 Review: With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]
70
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: Drive quickly asserts itself as an enjoyably diverting peel-out — brainless but not stupid, a well-stirred conspiracy/action mixture in keeping with Fox’s no-seat-belts hits 24 and Prison Break. Read full review
70
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe. Read full review
70
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: All in all, brainless fun. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: "Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face. Read full review
60
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here? Read full review
60
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: As fast-paced as it is preposterous. Read full review
50
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: "Drive" is less the sort of textured character study we've come to expect than an action-packed joy ride. That's not to say you won't wanna hop in. But it's hardly a journey you've gotta take. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: After just one episode, I was interested enough to make a mental note to watch the final one someday, just to see who won and what the race was all about. People with more time on their hands and a tolerance for utter implausibility may choose to make the whole journey. Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more. Read full review
30
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination. Read full review
10
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line. Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Muddled and befuddled from the outset, "Drive" represents a new kind of automotive hybrid -- a scripted treasure hunt designed to look like a reality show, well-stocked with the worst elements of both. It's basically "The Un-Amazing Race." Read full review
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