Calum Gilchrist
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Review: Drive Angry
4 March
Really, every part of me should have know I wouldn’t like the film, but for some reason I was looking forward to it. The film can be summed up with three words: Metal, cars and guns. Three things I don’t particularly like.
These three key elements were stuck onto a plot about a man who escaped hell and needs to save his daughter from some cult. It’s not that bad a story but I didn’t really pay attention to it as the constant sound of the Dodge Charger was blasting into my ears, deafening me.
Fast cars and guns might be what some people want but it’s never really that interesting to me. I know a few people that all they want to see is stuff blowing up and people being murdered in all varieties of ways. But that’s never really my cup of tea.
Machete was all about killing but it had a definite style and charm that just made it so enjoyable. Drive Angry didn’t have that charm and it was just boring. My cousin, and friend Ross Menzies actually fell asleep during a few scenes of the film. Violence and explosions send him to sleep, it’s quite funny.
One scene stood out as being interesting. It was a slow motion shoot-out, but all the way through it Nicolas Cage was holding onto a naked girl that he was having sex with just before a group of Satanists came in to his hotel room to try and kill him. Apart from that scene there is only one other scene where Satan’s accountant is driving a tanker filled with Hydrogen into a police blockade while listening to “That’s the Way I Like It”. That was kind of funny, but the rest of the film wasn’t really that good at all.
Heavy metal filled most of the soundtrack and I didn’t really enjoy it. It didn’t help that it was drowned out by the noise of the cars. Completely forgot that the film was in 3D as well, which just shows how great it was.
Maybe this film will appeal to you, but personally I don’t really recommend it unless you’re really into any of the three things I mentioned in the first paragraph.
Drive Angry - 1.5/5
