Thursday, November 4, 2010

tHop - Drive Angry


Breaking out of hell isn’t exactly an easy thing to pull off, no matter how easy the media wishes us to believe it is. Never the less, our hero, Milton, manages to do so. Shut up, Milton is manly name. Now, Milton is a hardened felon who has broken out of hell for one last chance at redemption.
Bad shit went down when a cult murdered his daughter and took her baby. Then that same shit is going to hit the fan if Milton here doesn’t stop them from sacrificing said baby under the next full moon.
We can’t have an action movie without something to titillate the male viewers, so enter: Piper, a waitress who hands over herself (get your mind out of the gutter) and her ex-boyfriend’s car (yeah, that thing is going to last) to go after the cult and their leader, Jonah King, to try and stop them before they do their evil deed.
Faster than you can say: Whoo boy, sounds like a generic plot to me, a killer from hell known as “The Accountant” joins the fray as he was sent to get Milton back to hell. FUCK, shit just got real, they sent … an accountant! Dun dun DUUUUUUUN. And so the chase begins as Milton and Piper try to get the King but at the same time have to stay one step ahead from The Accountant.

The full title of this movie Drive Angry 3D, but since 3D hasn’t been relevant since … you know, the 80’s, I’m just gonna ignore that fact and move on.
Whilst the plot of the movie might sound like you’ve seen it a dozen times before, doesn’t mean you need to put it in the PASS file.
The director of the movie, Patrick Lussier, isn’t much to look at as he has only done some of the latest Dracula movies, White Noise 2 and My Bloody Valentine. I haven’t seen any of those movies but the fact that they look like blandness to me, says enough for me personally. Although that doesn’t mean that given the right movie, this guy could go places!
No, it’s the actors we need to take a look at. More specifically, Milton and The Accountant. Milton is played by none other than the great Nicolas Cage. This guy holds a special place in my movie heart as he can be spectacular like in Face/Off and Matchstick Men, but then … Yeah … “OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!” Although even in his bad movies, he still has moments of absolute awesomeness. Again, I point you at The Wickerman where he flat out punches a woman whilst wearing a bear suit.
The other guy is William Fichtner, the only reason to watch Prison Break after Season One besides T-bag and Ken Rosenberg from the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The man is a great actor and definitely a reason to watch this movie.
For the rest there’s a bunch of good actors going for this. But that’s not why we’re going to watch the movie. All in all, the movie is promising great action, badassery from Cage and coolness from Fichtner. All we can do now is wait and see. But I definitely recommend it.

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