Director Lussier knows how to film action sequences and we get some pretty good chases that are certainly going to remind people of those films from the 70s. The violence in the film is pretty wild as we get various body parts cut off, heads split open and just about every body part gets shot at least once. These slower moments could have easily been edited out and you'd be left with a much more entertaining film. This happens from start to finish so it's hard to get a real good flow going. The film likes to gain speed only to slow down and then pick the speed back up. For starters, the film runs 105-minutes, which is simply way too long for this type of movie. It sets out to be a trashy throwback and on that level it certainly works but at the same time I think the film falls short due to some simple problems that could have easily been fixed. DRIVE ANGRY doesn't try to be a slick blockbuster and it doesn't even try to be a good movie. Everything you'd expect from a grindhouse picture is here including the car chases, bloody murders, wild sex scenes and of course full frontal nudity. If you're familiar with such films as RACE WITH THE DEVIL, DAUGHTER OF Satan and countless other horror films that deals with Satan worshipers then you should know where this film is going. Along the way Milton teams up with a sexy waitress (Amber Heard) as they try to bring down the cult, save the baby and get away from a mysterious figure known simply as The Accountant (William Fichtner). In the film Cage plays Milton, a man who escapes from Hell and comes to Earth to kill the Satanist (Billy Burke) who slit his daughter's throat and stole her newborn baby.
There's no way to spin it but this is a rather bad movie but I believe that was the intent so how do you rate such a film? If you enjoy those "B" movies from the 70s that would play after midnight at the drive-in then you might find yourself enjoying this Nicolas Cage flick. Drive Angry (2011) ** (out of 4) DRIVE ANGRY isn't a good film plain and simple.
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