By far the best thing about Drive Angry is William Fichtner. Billy Burke is the villain as the leader of the cult, who is quite silly and over the top but he works fine enough. She’s really not given anything to work with, so I don’t put it fully on her, but she isn’t really that good here. I haven’t seen Amber Heard in much, but if she has some acting talent it’s not on display here. Despite this, he is still entertaining enough and doesn’t end up being worst Nicolas Cage (which is dull Nicolas Cage). It feels like a wasted opportunity unfortunately. Nicolas Cage has built up a reputation of having some incredibly over the top performances, unfortunately he isn’t all crazy like he was in movies like Ghost Rider 2, Face/Off or Deadfall. The acting on the whole isn’t that great but it’s not one of the things I was really expecting. It does have its moments but a lot of the time it does feel like it was a wasted opportunity. The plot itself feels a little dull and really not as exciting as it should’ve been, at times feeling like a standard R rated action flick. At the same time, in terms of the tone it feels like it wasn’t going crazy enough. This movie does have some over the top things, I mean it includes Nicolas Cage having sex with clothes on with sunglasses while smoking a cigar while in a gunfight in slow, so by that point you’ll have an idea what kind of movie you’re in for. Drive Angry is a sort of grindhouse/exploitation movie with an overblown plot, extreme content and trashy writing. The dialogue really isn’t well written, which is to be expected. The movie doesn’t try to be more than it is thankfully. Nicolas Cage comes back from hell to get revenge on a cult who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. The plot of Drive Angry is straightforward enough. Nonetheless I still had a fun time with it. Drive Angry as to be expected wasn’t very good but also unfortunately it really wasn’t as crazy as it should be. I wasn’t really expecting much from Drive Angry, apparently it wasn’t very good but it’s an over the top action movie and it had Nicolas Cage, so naturally I had to check it out for myself.
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