Remember when every movie was slapping post-conversion 3D on the poster? Drive Angry actually shot with 3D cameras. And they use it for the stupidest, most glorious reasons. Bullets fly at the screen. Blood splashes at the lens. At one point, a lit cigar is thrown directly at the viewer. It is a gimmick, but it鈥檚 an honest gimmick. The Verdict Let鈥檚 be clear: Drive Angry is not The Godfather . It is not Citizen Kane . It is a movie where Nicolas Cage fights a man with a crossbow while his car is doing a flip.
And that鈥檚 just the first ten minutes. Cage plays Milton, a hardened criminal who broke out of the underworld for one reason: revenge. A cult led by the terrifyingly calm Jonah King (Billy Burke) murdered Milton鈥檚 daughter and plans to use the baby鈥檚 blood to bring about the apocalypse.
If you go into this looking for nuanced drama, you will hate it. But if you want to turn your brain off, crack open a beer, and watch the King of Weird Cinema drive a hot rod through hellfire while a demonic accountant does Sudoku puzzles in the backseat? Drive Angry
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Hot on his heels is 鈥淭he Accountant鈥� (William Fichtner), a mysterious, silver-tongued man in a white suit who works for the devil. The Accountant isn鈥檛 there to stop Milton鈥攈e鈥檚 there to bring him back . Their cat-and-mouse game is less The Fugitive and more Looney Tunes if Bugs Bunny smoked cigarettes and quoted Machiavelli. 1. The Cage-ian Energy This is peak, uncut, 100% pure grade-A Cage. He doesn鈥檛 talk much, but when he does, it鈥檚 a gravelly whisper that sounds like a dump truck full of gravel driving over a bag of feral cats. He reloads a shotgun while having sex. He drinks bourbon while driving 120mph. He stares at the moon with the quiet rage of a man who literally has nothing left to lose. Remember when every movie was slapping post-conversion 3D
Director Patrick Lussier knows exactly what movie he is making. This is a love letter to the drive-in exploitation flicks of the 70s. The car chases are practical, brutal, and loud. There is a shootout in a hotel room that lasts ten minutes. There is a scene where Cage drives a Dodge Charger through a cornfield while shooting at a cult van, and the camera never cuts. It鈥檚 pure, unapologetic mayhem.
Rating: 鈽呪槄鈽呪槄 (Four out of five flaming skulls) Bullets fly at the screen
There are Nicolas Cage movies, and then there are Nicolas Cage movies . You know the difference. One is Leaving Las Vegas (artsy, sad, Oscar-worthy). The other is Drive Angry (loud, horny, shot out of a cannon wrapped in flames).
