Drive Angry is another yet another CGI-based vehicle for Nicholas Cage.
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Drive Angry does have some great girl-power scenes, ‘comeuppance’ for abusive men and great car crashes, but still it is nothing but semi-fun action hero fluff.
Written by The Horror Czar, Don Sumner
July 24, 2011
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Release: February 25, 2011 (U.S. Theatrical) May 31, 2011 (U.S. DVD)
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Written by: Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer
Starring:
Nicolas Cage as Milton
Amber Heard as Piper
William Fichtner as The Accountant
Billy Burke as Jonah King
David Morse as Webster
Milton is an unkempt and painfully ugly dude who likes to chase people in his car and shoot them up with his big gun. He has a kind side, though, and shows it when he helps Piper (Amber Heard) get away from her abusive and cheating boyfriend, but he then whisks her off to help on a violent quest. Milton, we discover, is an escapee from Hell with plans to exact revenge on a self-proclaimed messiah who murdered his daughter when she was a member of his cult. Can Milton capture and punish his prey before the keeper of Hell finds him and returns him to the eternal flame?
Drive
Angry is a CGI enhanced action-hero type of film that
incorporates many of the tricks necessary to keep the short attention
spans of teen males stimulated for 90 minutes. That sounds a bit
snarky, I know, but it is not entirely meant that way because even for
adults this film has enough car crashes, girl fights, gun
blasts and dry humor to be good mindless entertainment. From that
perspective this is a fun film.
Car crashes and things blowing up aside, there are a few elements that let the air out of the tires of Drive Angry. One of them is the lead actor Nicholas Cage. Who the fu*k decided that Nick Cage was action-hero material? Clearly somebody at the big studios thinks so because he turns up in those kinds of films time and time again, from the older and interesting Face Off to the ever-forgettable and supernaturally oriented Ghost Rider. Let’s just call a duck a duck – Nicholas Cage is abso-fu*king-lutely terrible. Awful. Nasty looking, terrible actor, unconvincing as anyone heroic in any way, Nicholas Cage has nothing going for him but a good agent and a fortunate family tree (Francis Ford Coppola is Cage’s uncle). Cage has been horrible in most of the films he has appeared in, yet somehow winds up starring in films that have appeal in spite of his involvement. Go figure.
Beyond the pollution of Nick Cage, Drive Angry is not terrible but certainly not great. The action scenes are at times excellent, and as long as you are forgiving of the goofy climax and beyond cheese CGI conclusion, the explosions and cat fights just might be enough. This film is certainly not horror, in spite of the “from hell” concept, but explosion-rich fluff. Action hero fare for teen males, that’s what we have with Drive Angry. Hope for more at your peril.
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