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Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors.
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With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine.
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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]
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The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn.
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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.
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Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe.
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This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating.
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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.
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All in all, brainless fun.
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"Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face.
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The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here?
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There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two.
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Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter.
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It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids.
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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.
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As fast-paced as it is preposterous.
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"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.
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With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line.
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It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise.
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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.
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The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2.
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The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show.
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No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more.
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Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle.
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At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination.
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It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line.
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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."
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 266 out of 301
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Mixed: 2 out of 301
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Negative: 33 out of 301
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JessicaAug 16, 2007Will he ever get his wife back???
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ChrisG.Jun 30, 2007Please bring Drive back to Fox. Great show!
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MarkR.Jun 3, 2007