Drive Angry (2011)

the audience applauded

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

i must have seen a different film!!

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

As far as action movies go with a splash of satanic cults, this one is okay, but no masterpiece. The poster image is enough to give you the genral idea. Hot car, hot chick, hot mess of a backstory. Wrap a thirteen-in-a-dozen revenge tale with a occult twist to it, and we have a movie! Nick Cage himself being an actor that has movies that are eather great or just 'meh', this one hangs a bit in between. It's a character that he does well because it's just his thing; unbalanced, damaged and out for killing, we've seen that a dozen times before. The female lead, portrayed by Amber Heard is pretty shallow. Some boyfriend problems, and suddenly her boobs are along for the ride. That's het role in a nutshell.The story is okay for it being what it is, and the coating is pretty nice. I personally enjoy a bit of occult underlining anytime and Drive Angry has a good enjoyable version of it. The action scenes are nothing we have not seen before but also, as far as they go, are amusing to watch. But if you like movies with not too much plot to distract you from the brainless onslought of violence - and there is nothing wrong with that from time to time - this is a perfect flick.

Coming at ya!Must way, The Raven doesn't normally watch such rough stuff. This one is particularly violent, with a blood and gore and spilled guts ratio that would compare to what the average fan of this genre would hope to find. I am, of course, here for no other reason than, arguably, the most exciting contemporary actress, Amber Heard. Usually, when I wax lyrical, it is about some actress in a long- forgotten TV show or (Eighties/Nineties) old movie, but Amber's been pretty much in the news lately, she is well-known, and there are hordes Amber fans out there. I know her from ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE and AND SOON THE DARKNESS, and soon I will be settling in for another unlikely choice, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. Yeah, following on the trail of favorite actresses, I do encounter some odd titles, films I'd never have gone for.This one, it is how it is described on Wikipedia, "brash, loud" in spades! High octane, tortured steel, smell the petrol fumes, the burning rubber.There is really only one thing letting the side down.Nicolas Cage.He is some kinda big fraud. Actor? Him? I've never ever seen him in any way convincing in any movie. This is no exception. The man cannot pull off being an action hero. He couldn't even pull off being down and out in LEAVING LAS VEGAS. I have to admit, I've never been a Nicolas Cage fan, he was ridiculous in WILD AT HEART, disliked him ever since, and his presence in a movie is kinda off-putting for me already, which is why I was kinda skeptic about obtaining this title, but the trailer convinced me I gotta have it for Amber's sake. Testosterone-laden way the movie starts, quite too much for me. I'm thinking, what overblown junk, but okay, Amber movie, just hold on, she'll be here. And then she does, and when she transforms outside the diner, there is just no looking back. The most exciting female star of the time?Amber Heard is 1000% perfect for this movie. I doubt anybody else in the whole wide world could have remotely come close. She is jaw-dropping stunning, and portrays the necessary attitude, man, I cannot do the chick justice, she is just a force, a force beyond comparison that defies description.Do I go for a character like hers? No. I am old school. I do a bit of writing myself, and I have frilly-girl heroines, they are very gentle creatures, they do show their mettle when they are cornered, but they're not even really Me Generation types, what say Urban Grrrls, like Piper here, the type of survivor our declining society has produced.But Amber is absolutely a thrill to behold. The action heroine to end all kick-ass action heroines. Utterly convincing. Which is more than can be said for old Nick there.But okay, to be fair... The movie is such a force, sweeping you along, by the end all really got to me... And I even looked past my criticism of ol' Nick. This whole thing is BEYOND DESCRIPTION something unbelievably GREAT! Highly recommended, not for the squeamish, for action fans.

Nicolas Cage is not the awesome actor he used to be nowadays. For the past several years his career has hit the wall and he has found himself in a lot of mediocre to poor movies that barely rate a mention. Today Nicolas Cage is a far cry from the actor who used to be one of my top 5 favourite actors growing up. On my list Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), Face/Off (1997), Adaptation (2002) and Matchstick Men (2003) were certainly his most memorable movies. Drive Angry was certainly not a highlight for Nicolas Cage. This brainless car wreck of a movie was just awful. Drive Angry is another one of those movies that I disliked so much that I just could not persist with this movie right to the finish.John Milton (Nicolas Cage) manages to escape from hell after Satanist cult members led by Jonah King (Billy Burke) murder his daughter and take her baby with intention of sacrificing the baby. With the help of a waitress named Piper (Amber Heard). To stop the sacrifice going ahead, Milton and Piper tear through the highways in a 1971 red Chevrolet Chevelle SS that Milton has been given. To complicate further matters, Satan's merciless henchman known as The Accountant (William Fichtner) who is also disguised as a FBI agent has been sent to rein Milton back into hell.This was one of the most disappointing and unmemorable movies for Nicolas Cage. His movies are just a joke now, and as an actor I have lost faith in him. The plot is a complete mess and a total disaster. As I said at the start, I could not be bothered finishing the movie. Everything about Drive Angry was bad.Save your money and save your brain cells, because Drive Angry is one of those movies that you should not waste your time with. 1/10.

Drive Angry (2011): Dir: Patrick Lussier / Cast: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David Morse: Pointless and brutally excessive road kill about vengeance. Nicolas Cage plays a sorry sap who drives out of Hell in search of the cult that murdered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. Apparently this cult, lead by the psychotic Jonah King, is set to sacrifice the baby at the next full moon. He is joined on his quest by a waitress who obviously has nothing better to do. After he intervenes when she is being beat up by her cheating boyfriend, she gladly tags along. This is all very stupid but director Patrick Lussier presents some fantastic 3D effects. The film takes on an appeal very similar to the Grindhouse films only this sucks. Cage spends much of the film either driving fast or shooting cultist. What fails here is that his escape from Hell is pure nonsense, and his shootout while in the midst of sex is even less believable. Amber Heard as his waitress companion seems to come from a long list of women since Angelina Jolie who can kick the crap out of people. She is never believable but she puts on this bullshit "I'm with you all the way" nonsense. William Fichtner plays Satan's accountant who is out to bring Cage back to Hell. Why Satan has an accountant is never known. Billy Burke plays Jonah King who is basically a target for a nasty departure. David Morse, a capable actor, is also wasted in this hellish trash. The Biblical or supernatural elements are laughable enough to make viewers want to drive angry right over the film in full speed. Score: 3 / 10