Drive Angry

Nicholas Cage takes a walk on his wilder side playing John Milton, a man on a mission to save his granddaughter before she can be sacrificed by a charismatic cult leader with a plan to literally open the gates of hell. Along the way he picks up a diner waitress named Piper (Amber Heard) who decides her life is so bad that hooking up with a crazy guy driving a fast car and carrying an ancient gun called The God Killer is a good decision. The movie is little more than a series of scenes where Milton and Piper get cornered by a faction of the cult and have to fight their way out. Given the fact that the movie is rated R and was released in 3D, each of the fights is, in turn, little more than an excuse for things — axes, bullets, severed limbs, buckets of blood – to look like they are flying off the screen right at you. And you know what? That’s enough. Directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine), the movie isn’t trying to be anything but a modern day grindhouse film. It has no pretense of being art, unlike the grindhouse films Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez made back in 2007. All Lussier wants to do is make each scene in the movie as exciting as possible, and he does it with style.