Drive Angry 3D (18) * Starring Nicholas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner. Dir Patrick Lussier.
As you watch Drive Angry 3D, you can almost see the thought processes of the production team saying "lets see how much swearing, blood and tits we can get into a film."
The film follows Milton (Cage), an escapee from hell on a vendetta against satanic cultist Jonah King (Billy Burke) who killed his daughter and is about to sacrifice his granddaughter in an attempt to bring hell to earth. Along the way, he is tracked by the mysterious Accountant (Fichtner) who wants to bring Milton back to hell, and meets Piper (Head), whose car he uses to chase down King.
Whilst the special effects are good, playing on the whole 3D coming-out-of-the-screen like is shown in trailers on TV, where artifacts take a swipe at the cinema audience, it doesn't make up for the terrible screen-play, terrible hyperbole, and terrible acting from Cage.
Fichtner stands out against the rest of the cast as the cool and collected Accountant, proving himself to be the better of the two 'big' names in the film, delivering some brilliant quips, such as telling people he meets when their time is up.
I wouldn't readily recommend this film to anyone, a fact which could be reinforced by the fact that, including myself, there were only five people in the cinema when I went to see it. Considering the hype and the amount of trailers seen for the film, it doesn't live up to what it promises, and is one of the few films where I prefered the trailers shown before the feature started.
I think you were a bit harsh on this film. It wasn't going to win any awards for acting or writing but that wasn't it's aim. All it was after was the entertain! the Director's previous release 'My Bloody Valentine 3D' was a bad movie in many respects, it had terrible acting, a silly plot/script and un-remarkable settings. But what it did well was entertain, I was chuckling all the way through that and it made good use of the 3D technology. And I'd be willing to say the same things of Drive Angry. It's daft it's the kind of film where the tongue is firmly in the cheek. It knows what it is and it plays up to that as far as it can.
ReplyDeleteWhile it doesn't completely succeed in being a great film I still found it thoroughly enjoyable. ***.5/*****