Produced by De Luca, Rene Besson, Adam Fields. All the actors have fun with the pic’s trashy dialogue, while tech credits capably combine digital and real-world tricks.Ī Summit Entertainment release presented in association with Millennium Films of a Nu Image, Michael De Luca production, in association with Saturn Films. Arguably, the film’s niftiest effect is relatively simple, as the third dimension allows Milton’s violent memories to play in the foreground while his haunted face remains visible in the back.Īlthough Cage doesn’t offer anything remotely new here, the film benefits greatly from tongue-in-cheek thesping by Fichtner, Heard and, in a late-reel cameo, David Morse as Milton’s mellow buddy Webster. Toting a devilish shotgun called the “God-killer,” Milton himself is being pursued by cops as well as by the Accountant (William Fichtner, enjoyably hammy), a natty dresser who’s in cahoots with the man downstairs.Įn route to the pic’s hellfire climax, countless scenes of high-speed road rage keep “Drive Angry” plenty watchable, particularly as Lussier favors longer-than-average shot lengths and a precisely focused use of 3D that never strains the eyes. King, who keeps the deceased’s femur bone for fun, plans to sacrifice Milton’s baby grandson under a full moon by way of creating hell on earth. On the road, Milton monosyllabically explains to Piper that he’s chasing Jonah King (Billy Burke), sleazy leader of a satanic cult that Milton’s kid had tried to escape in her final hours. Quitting her job at a Colorado diner run by lecherous Fat Lou (Jack McGee), then breaking her engagement to philandering Frank (co-writer Todd Farmer), kicking-and-punching Piper agrees to drive weirdo Milton to Louisiana in her ex’s ’69 Charger, one of several vintage hot rods fetishized in the film. The film’s most outrageous setpiece, shot in blatantly cheesy slo-mo by co-writer/director Patrick Lussier (2009’s “ My Bloody Valentine”), has Cage’s immortal badass dispatching a succession of blade-twirling goons in an Oklahoma motel room while sporting dark shades, sucking a cigar, slurping from a whiskey bottle and, er, staying in the closest possible proximity to a naked one-night stand.Ĭage’s Schwarzenegger-esque turn as terminator Milton is well matched by Heard’s playfully physical perf as Piper, a natural-born butt-kicker whom Lussier treats with unusual respect by the sexist standards of modern action fare.
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