Movie: Drive Angry
Genre: thriller, supernatural
Synopsis: Milton (Nicolas Cage) was bad person, but a loving father) – who died and went to hell, leaving behind his daughter. His daughter falls in with a cult, has a baby and is then brutally murdered by the cult leader, Jonah King (Billy Burke) who wants to – literally - sacrifice the baby. So Milton breaks out of hell and is after King to save his grandchild and avenge the murder of his daughter. He is helped in the chase by a girl, Piper (Amber Heard), that he rescued and by an old friend, Webster (David Morse). And to complicate matters, Milton is being hunted by The Accountant (William Fitchner). The Accountant’s job is to take Milton back to hell.
My two cents: I loved this movie. Nicolas Cage plays a total bad ass who has the advantage of already being dead. Lots of chases, lots of fights and lots of bad guys being killed in various and sundry ways. I thought William Fitchner really stole the movie. He is revels in being the invincible bad guy with an outrageous sense of humor. I have seen Fitchner in a lot of movies and TV shows and have always liked him . . . but I don’t think I have ever enjoyed him more than in this movie. He has great lines. His car goes off a bridge and lands upside down. Two young men come across him as he calmly steps out of the mangled wreckage. He looks at one and says that he won’t see him again for a long time”. Then he smiles at the other and says “I’ll see you in three months”.
If you are any kind of Nicolas Cage fan you will like this. If you just like seeing bad guys get beaten up and killed, you should like it too. The 3D did not really add much, in my opinion.
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