Drive Angry 3D Movie Review
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Patrick Lussier
Screenwriter: Todd Farmer, Patrick Lussier
Starring: Nicolas Cage, William Fichtner, Amber Heard, Billy Burke, Simona Williams, Katy Mixon
Genre: Action, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for strong brutal violence throughout, grisly images, some graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language)
Official Website: DriveAngry3D.com
Review: 7.5/10 rating | 5/10 rating
Review:
So what does the term “so bad it’s good” mean? First, the film must also be no doubt bad, not so much a matter of taste as a matter of vision. Ridiculous is difficult to take plot elements are a must, dialogue fries (not necessarily grounds crowded, but it helps), and characterization replaced by machismo. So much sex, violence or unnecessary or excessive, and preferably both.
“Drive Angry ‘checks, checks and check all these boxes.
As the film’s opening narration tells us a lot of bad out there, guys who think because they are so bad that no one has yet found its way and prevent them from doing what they want. Guys like a satanic cult leader Jonathan King (“Twilight” Billy Burke) who is willing to sacrifice their children to themselves the power forever. But we are also told, these guys are wrong, that level of arrogance and inhumanity have consequences. Consequences as the grandfather of the dead child (Nicolas Cage) is so angry escapes from hell only to hunt the king and rescue her last living member of the family. And if you did a lot of sex and violence to do so, the better. In fact, they can also be referred to as the “Sex & Violence”.
Corresponds to the requirements of poorly sorted, but how to get from there to be good.
First and foremost, you can not take you seriously. Once you’ve committed yourself to make a bad movie (and recognized) any attempt to mitigate the damage caused by attempts at characterization or back-story that would just glaring flaws more obvious, which suggests that instead of the filmmaker deliberately chose to go this way he / she thinks they say a good (or even fair) story. Lengthy discussions about the film is in mythology are the signs of this problem as all being the motivation of a character and back-story in a scene somewhere in the middle.
No, it’s a genre that does not have the time nor the patience to quality and understands only that more is more. You have to set foot on the accelerator and just go full bore, more over, the better. Show no fear or remorse, and you know what to embrace. There is a distinction more subtle than it sounds. The result is the difference between “Catwoman” and “Hell Comes to Frog Town” between a classic (just) and a warning to others.
Where is “Drive Angry” fits into this?
It’s hard to say. It certainly got more of the upper cold. When your main character is not the time to stop having sex with a waitress he picked up, or give up his bottle of whiskey, shoot a group of cult members, do not worry about the obvious quality control.
The way professional supplier of joy schlock Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000 “,” My Bloody Valentine 3D “) intends to display emotion is another clue. From the kitchen eye candy halt its series of muscle cars classic similar treatment to different actresses, mostly naked waitress struggling starting Piper (Amber Heard) is obviously a movie for kids to see and each time nothing more than this. Ear is especially revealing about the “so good” of the equation that the idea guys literally incredible 12 years of what should be a girl – Scrub muscle cars, looking for guys to pick up and respond to all challenges with a punch in the face.
But is it good? It’s hard to say. Part of the requirement of an unknown level of machismo replace all known forms of human emotion. This is something that “Drive Angry” certainly attempts while working for Burke crazy rock star wannabe cult leader, or even the waitress, it seems unlikely from pulp Cage, middle-aged face and droning . Especially when combined with a horrible blond wig.
Is balanced by William Fichtner as cold as ice accountant, agent of Satan sent to bring back Milton, which ignores everything, even his car hit a bridge. Fichtner is just so hilarious, it’s obvious he knows what kind of film that is in
But the film is he thinking? “Drive Angry” a masterpiece of Joe Bob Briggs in the decision? The giant cannon which kills the gods and the human skull beer mug say yes Cage ambiguous presence might say.
I do not know if I would pay to see in a theater, except perhaps for car chases (one of the sequences of real-world years, I saw that 3D really increase). I do not know if I would rent for even a dollar. But if it came on HBO and I already pay for the channel, I’d probably watch it.
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