Arnold Schwarzenneger. Steven Seagal. Sylvestor Stallone. What do these men all have in common? All of these men were at
the top of their game ten years ago, pounding out some of the most popular and exciting movies you could find. And all of these men have not had a hit in the last five years, resorting to badly scripted action movies that are just poor clones of the very movies that they were starring in years before. They are Hollywood''s wasted space, the leftovers of the Cold War. Or something like that.
Of course, they have all been trying to get a number one film for a long time. Schwarzenneger had a modest hit with End of Days, but Toy Story 2 crushed its hopes. Seagal finally got a number one spot with 2001''s Exit Wounds, but it can''t be considered a blockbuster. And then there is Sylvestor Stallone, who decided to team up with the director that gave him his last hit, Cliffhanger, in the early nineties, to make Driven, an action drama about race cars.
Action dramas are really the way to go for Stallone. Sure, he''s not the best actor, with his breathless monotone voice, but this is the guy who did Rocky, and he also showed that he could act in Cop Land, which is his best movie since Cliffhanger. Furthermore, considering those two great movies, his best (meaning most well done) have been action dramas.