![]() ![]() ![]() To be fair, the filmmakers are clearly in on the joke, albeit in a witless way that makes you wish Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez were on hand. And it’s produced by Michael De Luca, illustrating that it’s possible to follow one of the smartest, most perceptive movies of the year, The Social Network, with one of the dumbest. Its star has spiraled so deep into self-parody that the prefix “Academy Award winner” on his name seems to exist only as a potential Ricky Gervais punchline. ![]() There’s something deliciously perverse about high-octane trash like this opening on Oscar weekend, the holiest of times on the Hollywood calendar. In turn, Milton is being followed by an army of Southern cops and an acerbic Satanic bounty hunter named The Accountant (William Fichtner).ĭrive Angry has a knack for stacking its clichés in mind-boggling arrangements: The climactic sacrificial ceremony is staged as a red-neck rave, complete with shooting guns, girls gone wild, a Winnebago, a cooler of cold beer and plenty of supernatural fireworks.NEW YORK – Midway through Drive Angry, Nicolas Cage’s avenging escapee from Hell brushes off questions by saying, “We don’t have time to explain.” The screenwriters of this explosively addled 3D grindhouse fodder appear to share that attitude, until they relent and sketch in some plot detail. Piper decides to help Milton chase down an Elvis-like devil worshipper, Jonah King (Billy Burke), and his horde of followers. After he saves her from her abusive cracker boyfriend, they head off together in the boyfriend's black '69 Dodge Charger, which is later exchanged for a cranberry red '71 Chevrolet Chevelle SS (these details are apparently important). Shortly after, he arrives at a grubby diner where he hooks up with feisty waitress, Piper (Amber Heard, in Daisy Duke cut-offs). A combination of Southern road movie and exploitation flick,ĭrive Angry 3D stars Nicolas Cage as a felon who escapes from Hell in an effort to save his baby granddaughter from a cult sacrifice.ĭrive Angry serves up a non-stop stream of female nudity, flying body parts, gun battles and smart-alecky dialogue, which, in one boundary-pushing motel-room scene, actually take place simultaneously.ĭirected by Canadian Patrick Lussier (a former Wes Craven editor) and co-written with Todd Farmer, the story begins in mid-action as Cage's character, John Milton, wastes a gang of bad guys on the highway. ![]()
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