Review: Drive Angry 3D

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.

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Now Playing Review – Date Night

If Date Night were a blind date between you and another person (as opposed to what, I don’t know) then I would say that the date is going pretty well.  Sure there are times when some traits are revealed that you aren’t really sure if you want to stick around for, and sometimes they make some nervously ill-conceived jokes that you laugh at to be nice, but overall you genuinely had a good time and were glad you didn’t need to get a friend to call with an “emergency” to allow you to bail out early.

The date that this story revolves around takes a different path than the hypothetical mentioned above.  In Date Night, Phil and Claire Foster try to add a little spice to their marriage by going out to a fancy dinner in the city.  Unfortunately they do this without making a reservation, but instead of leaving they decide to take on the identity of the Tripplehorns since they bailed on their table.  Unfortunately for the Fosters, they don’t even get through their dinner before two men pull them from their meal and accuse them of doing something in a case of mistaken identity, starting off the most dangerously adventurous date of their relationship. [Read more...]