Simply Perfect

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

best movie i've ever seen.

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

Drive Angry is a low rent sleazy grindhouse type thriller starring an Oscar winner who has seen better days but has a big tax bill to pay.Nicolas Cage plays John Milton. It just so happens there was a famous English poet with the same name who wrote Paradise Lost. I think there is a clue here.Milton is a man on a mission. His daughter was killed by a satan worshipping cult leader Jonah King (Billy Burke.) King has taken her baby and plans to sacrifice it and hopes to bring hell on earth.Milton is literally after King like a bat out of hell to save his grandaughter. Milton teams up with a kindly waitress, Piper (Amber Heard) who he meets in a diner. As both of them go after King, a mysterious person known as the Accountant (William Fichtner) wants to bring back Milton from where he has escaped from and pursues him like a hound from hell.Burke hams it up as the cult leader, Fichtner seems to be having fun, Cage is a bit dull. It is entertaining tosh, a bit stupid and also overlong.

Drive Angry is a mixed bag to say the least. I like over-the-top action movies with dark content and good sense of humor...this movie has this things...sporadically.It's the kind of movie where the best scene goes something like this: Nicolas Cage making love to a prostitute while shooting at satanic worshipers with Scythes, with pretty bad cgi-blood splattering around and everything's in pretty cool slow-mo.(Note: I've now seen the movie "Shoot em' up" where the same scene takes place but much better...)Technically the movie looks okay, and has even some very well staged scenes, but the visual effects and green screen are incredibly bad for the most part, which is sad if you know that this movie cost 50.000.000 dollars. (One year later came a little movie called "DREDD" for a prize 15.000.000 below, and it looked stylish as hell, and is mostly known for it's incredible use of slow-mo and 3D...) And yeah i know that this movie wants to be some kind of Grindhouse- flick, but even the cheesiest Grindhouse movies use at least practical Gore-effects and stunts. The soundtrack is also very bland, it's kinda country-rock, there is even a part which clearly copies the famous "Mombasa"-Track from "Inception", but some of the licensed songs work fine.I don't want to sound too negative here, i enjoyed the movie for the most part, the things that are practical are even fairly good.The actors are well suited for this kind of film, i'm a fan of Amber Heard since her very strong performance in "John Carpenter's The Ward", and she's by far the most believable character to be found. She is a bad ass chick, but not because she's a good fighter, or just hot and dumb, but because of how she does everything in her power to stop the evil. Even her fight scenes are very realistic which is interesting to see in a movie where everything else is over-the-top. Nicolas Cage is very good, there is a scene in this film where he describes how it is to burn in hell, and you'll believe what he says. There is also a great cameo from Tom Atkins ("Escape from New York" and "Night of the Creeps") in a little role as Police officer, which is great to see. But the best performance in the film is by William Fichtner, this might be his best role to date, or at least one of his biggest.The plot is pretty basic, but serves it's purpose, it's surprisingly engaging to follow John Milton on his path to save his granddaughter. The only big downside: The Climax. It begins with a really fun and elaborate action sequence in which Nicolas Cage kills everyone without even getting out of his car, when he eventually does leave it, it get's to a very lame and clichéd conclusion...Drive Angry is trashy fun full of nudity, violence and Satanists, but it's not as tongue-and-cheek as i hoped. It's on the same level as another movie which came out the same year, with a similar premise and also Nicolas Cage in the starring role: "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" which was better than the previous one, but also a mixed bag, with some entertaining sequences which nearly made up for the rest...If you want to see a really good Grindhouse movie (in my opinion, the best), ugly enough also from the same year, and with a budget 47.000.000 dollars lower than this one, but far better made, watch "Hobo with a Shotgun", it's better in every way...

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.

Although the two movies have almost zero in common other than the word in the title, Nicolas Cage's Drive Angry made me a lot less angry than Ryan Gosling's Drive. But, then, I have very little patience for extremely slow moving "disguised action" movies, such as the latter.Drive Angry absolutely wasn't anywhere near as bad as it should've been. Sure, I would've liked to see one or more Cage Outbursts he's known for and he had little to none here, and the obvious 3D effects stood out like a sore thumb in the 2D version I saw, but for the most part, I had fun.Mostly thanks to William Fichtner's The Account character. What was funny about him was that when he first showed up on screen, I rolled my eyes at the overexposure I've seen of him lately. Thankfully, my attitude changed 100% in two seconds of him on screen. He became as likable and funny as Tom Hiddleston's Loki from the Marvel Avenger films.From that moment – when he arrived very early in the movie, I waited each scene for The Accountant to pop up again. Not that the rest of the movie was just okay, he just lit up the screen and if you see his character, or Fichtner's portrayal, you will most likely agree.So we have an escaped con from down under and he's being chased down by The Accountant while he's chasing down his infant grandchild being held captive by a cult. Meanwhile, Piper, a blonde, is along for the ride. No real motivation for her being the film or the sidekick to the con played by Cage, but, maybe because, uh, she's a blonde.The action was fun, the lines okay and the direction straight, which I prefer in these types of sly action R-rated fair. Many times they try to overcomplicate films likes these and lose a lot of the target audience that would be attracted to it. Mercifully, they knew it was just a little higher-budget B-movie and never strayed.Not perfect, but a fun Saturday Night, stay-in flick.* * * Final thoughts: Every once in a while, the gang over at the hilarious How Did This Get Made podcast will throw me a curveball. Typically, actually, more accurately, 90% of the movies they cover for their show that they spend an hour or so ridiculing, are bad…REALLY bad. And while they do love to include Cage in all his outbursts, this movie, again, had little of those Cage moments that I've come to love. "OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!" anyone? Finally, the podcast did point out some funny moments and proved that, yeah, it is a B-movie, but I still had a blast here. If not just overall, Fichtner would be enough to sell me on this.