DRIVE ANGRY

DRIVE ANGRY

Alternate Title:
Drive Angry 3D

Alternate German Title:
Drive Angry - Fahr zur Hölle

USA, 2011
Director: Patrick Lussier

6/10

After the atrocious "Ghost Rider 2", I actually promised myself never... NEVER to watch anymore post-2000 Nic Cage movies, but one of my workmates (and The Cinema Snob) convinced me to break my promise, and to give this one a shot - and so I did. Well, it's nothing special but at least it's far, FAAAR better than the "Ghost Rider" flicks.

Patrick Lussier's 3D box office bomb "Drive Angry" is a quite enjoyable grindhouse-like carsploitation action movie. It's entertaining and action-packed, full of exploding cars, gun shootings, naked girls and car chases, but unfortunately, it's also full of dull, tedious and uninteresting scenes, that totally spoil all the fun.

As for the acting... well, Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Cage (though fortunately not as over-the-top as usual), and Amber Heard is Amber Heard (decent but horribly overrated actress) - but the rest of the cast is pretty awesome, especially William Fichtner as the super-hilarious "The Accountant", the legendary Tom Atkins as grumpy police captain, David Morse as highly sympathetic trucker, and script writer Todd Farmer as cheating douchebag.

Top: Nic Cage humping a whore while smoking a cigar, drinking Whiskey and shooting an awful lot of bad guys.
Flop: way too many shitty-looking CGI effects; some annoying 3D.

Final verdict: solid but forgettable fun flick.

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