Drive Angry (2011)

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  3 / 10

  Drive Angry is too reckless for its own good. Grindhouse. A sub-genre unfamiliar to me. Muscle cars, B-movie violence, satanism and acting so bad that it starts to corrupt your mind into thinking it's good. Drive Angry clearly takes the grungy nature of disposable drive-in films, but feels irritatingly obnoxious rather than genuinely entertaining. A man escapes from hell and returns to the real world to save a child from being sacrificed to Satan. Heard is absolutely stunning and acts surprisingly well. Fichtner steals every scene with his "sophisticated" dialogue. And some of the action sequences were watchable and well edited. Suffice to say though, this just was not my cup of tea. Cage was woefully monotonous, attempting to sound like a middle aged "badass". The plot never feels gripping and resorts to derivative storytelling by merging religious fantasy with car chases. The lack of involvement with these characters numbed any sense of emotional investment. Some scenes felt utterly pointless and were only used to showcase its B-movie strands. For example, Cage's character is midway through intercourse to which he shoots intruders and gets stunned whilst still inside her (talk about shocking penetration...). Or how about the scene where a car gently taps a wall and randomly starts flipping over it. Wait, Fichtner's coin! Why? I'll tell you why. Gimmicky 3D effects. Y'know, those really noticeable objects that come flying towards your face for no apparent reason, other than to hinder the quality of the film. We've got axes, baseball bats, bullets from a "God killer" (don't get me started on that) and coins. Even so, the traditional visual effects were horrific also, like really bad. Then the ending happens, everyone's driving on the highway to hell and they all live happily ever after in a burning inferno. My point is, with such a ludicrous plot, this should've been fun. Unfortunately it lacked the muscle and became more of a dragster, with the action lacking thrills and the pacing dipping frequently. It's stupid, just too stupid. Oh, and the correct syntax would be "Drive Angrily".

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