Drive Angry 3D is a fun idea that doesn’t nearly take full advantage of the premise it unleashes into the film. I mean, the film opens with Nic Cage breaking out of Hell to hunt down the murderers of his daughter, a satanic cult hoping to bring Hell Fire to Earth, how does this movie not rock?
It constantly teeters on embracing the silly insanity that it presents to us but sadly never grabs hold and runs with it. Part of the problem is Nic Cage isn’t nearly crazy enough in the picture. Sure he is a serious dead father on a mission but give us a little something; and he oddly loosens up in the film’s final moments of the film. Cage shows shades of cool and crazy but most of that craziness is left to the very cool William Fichtner. There is an almost compelling mythology built up in this world of Satanism and insane action but again it never really grabs on and goes with it.
