Such a frustrating disappointment

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I'm not exactly sure why I finished watching it. It's not quite as terrible as some of the reviews insist, but it's never much above slightly amusing. I found Thomas Jane sort of fun, with his Chris-Lambert-but-not-quite-as-strange look. He actually did a little work here and there and was pleasant. Grumblings about John Cusack's job are somewhat on the money. It occurs to me that there were really only two actual laugh-out-loud moments for me, and I' not giving them away, just in case you watch it. Too bad. It was loosely assembled from a collection of sort of funny possibilities. If you have some spare time to watch it for completeness, you won't regret it really, but that's about as much of a recommendation as I can drum up. Too bad.

This appalling load of tripe leaves me wondering which is the worst. Brian Trenchard-Smith's writing or his directing. How on earth was anyone persuaded to fund this movie? The action sequences are straight out of film school year one and at times one can actually see the stunt driver's faces! And this guy is supposed to be an action director. Perhaps he was too exhausted from the effort of typing the tragic dialog and apologizing to his lead actors after they realized just what a mess they had landed themselves in. The twelve million dollars it reportedly cost to make would have been better spent on four movies at three million dollars each with decent scripts and directing. Let's pray Trenchard-Smith never gets another chance to inflict such horrors on the public. I have just watched this again it seems even worse than ever

Everything from the Ridiculously Inaccurate Title is Lame. If You are Going to Title Your Movie "Drive Hard" it Might be Nice to have some Hard Driving in the Thing. Although the Pairing of Thomas Jane and John Cusack Seems Like it Could Work as Both have a Behind the Smile Quirkiness and Can Give Characters a Deeper than Surface Appeal, it was Not to Be.The Dialog that is Improvised at Times Comes Off as Dialog that was Improvised at Times. A False Spontaneity that is Irritating and Embarrassing. The Script Gives them Little Wit and Both Try in Vain to Extract Blood from this Script of Stone. It is a Worthless Movie Filled with the Worse Car Chases Imaginable and the Gun Violence is so Lackluster as to be Criminal.The Story is OK but the Execution Across the Board is Lifeless, Artless, and Unforgivable. This is Movie Making at its Most Mundane and All Involved Should be Ashamed. Nothing Here is Entertaining and Although it Tries Hard to be an Action Buddy Comedy it Manages Nothing Short of a Forgettable Film that Most Likely will be Excluded from Everyones Resume.

Did you ever see a movie where the two lead actors are completely humiliated that their career has dropped to the bottom? Well, here it is. I think John Cusack actually was going to cry in some scenes. I just assumed that Thomas Jane needed drug money.Besides the acting, the movie is incompetent on every level. Bad script, bad directing. Bad car chases. Horrible and illogical action scenes.It isn't even bad enough to be entertaining.Seriously, don't waste your time. Or subject anyone to this.Just remember Cusack in Sixteen Candles, The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, The Journey of Natty Gann, One Crazy Summer, Eight Men Out Say Anything, The Grifters, or Being John Malkovich. Those are good memories. This steaming pile is hard to get out of your head.