Big. Stupid. Fun.
I had the chance to see Patrick Lussier's Drive Angry 3D last night and though the year is still quite young this was easily the most fun I've had in a theater so far this year and I feel quite confident in saying that William Fichtner delivers what will easily go down as the bad guy performance of the year. He's awesome. Nicolas Cage is the good-crazy Nick, Lussier and writing partner Todd Farmer deliver a script that is excessive in all the right ways and the 3D effects are very fun indeed, Lussier being one of the early adopters of the technology and also a man who insists on shooting in 3D if the film is to be presented that way.
My full review just went live at Showcase but here's an excerpt:
I had the chance to see Patrick Lussier's Drive Angry 3D last night and though the year is still quite young this was easily the most fun I've had in a theater so far this year and I feel quite confident in saying that William Fichtner delivers what will easily go down as the bad guy performance of the year. He's awesome. Nicolas Cage is the good-crazy Nick, Lussier and writing partner Todd Farmer deliver a script that is excessive in all the right ways and the 3D effects are very fun indeed, Lussier being one of the early adopters of the technology and also a man who insists on shooting in 3D if the film is to be presented that way.
My full review just went live at Showcase but here's an excerpt:
Here's what makes Drive Angry 3D great. Lussier, his co-writer Todd Farmer and the entire cast know exactly what sort of film they set out to make and they make no apologies for it. Screw art. This is film as entertainment, pure and simple, an example of pandering to the audience done right ... This is a movie that features gratuitous nudity because nudity is fun. And if nudity is fun then more nudity is even more fun. And if nudity alone is fun then nudity coupled with violence is fantastic so why not have Amber Heard punch out a voluptuous naked woman with all of her assets plainly on display and shot in 3D to show those curves to full effect? Take that, Herzog -- people like tits better than rocks. It's just a fact. This nudity principle is also applied to cars and guns.