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Drive Angry (2011)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 61

It may deliver the over-the-top action pieces, but Drive Angry prefers to work safely within grindhouse formula than do something truly unique.

Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 16

It may deliver the over-the-top action pieces, but Drive Angry prefers to work safely within grindhouse formula than do something truly unique.

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Movie Info

Nicolas Cage headlines this high-octane thriller as Milton, a hard-case felon who breaks out of Hell to prevent the cult that murdered his daughter from sacrificing his infant granddaughter to Satan on the night of the full moon. With just three days to go before the ritual killing, Milton crosses paths with knockout waitress Piper (Amber Heard), who steals her cheating ex-boyfriend's vintage Charger and joins him on his quest to save the Earth from the forces of darkness. With Piper's help and

R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Patrick Lussier

Written By: Todd Farmer, Patrick Lussier

In Theaters: Feb 25, 2011 Wide

On DVD: May 31, 2011

Box Office:$10.7M

Summit Entertainment

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Cast

Nicolas Cage
Milton
Amber Heard
Piper
William Fichtner
The Accountant
Billy Burke
Jonah King
Christa Campbell
Mona
Charlotte Ross
Candy
Tom Atkins
Cap
Jack McGee
Fat Lou
Todd Farmer
Frank
David Morse
Webster
Katy Mixon
Norma Jean
Wanetah Walmsley
American Indian Mother
Robin McGee
Guy With Camera Phone
Fabian Moreno
Latino Busboy
Edrick Browne
Rookie
Marc Macaulay
Sarge
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Roy
Julius Washington
Uniformed Officer
Jamie Teer
Babysitter
Bryan Massey
Trooper #1
Timothy Walter
Trooper #2
Kent Jude Bernard
Teen #1
Brent Henry
Teen #2
Gerry May
Male TV News Reporter
Sherri Talley
Female TV News Reporter
Arianne Martin
Milton's Daughter (Olde...
Con Schell
Fucking Driver
Nick Gomez
Fucking Middle
Joe Chrest
Fucking Passenger
Oakley Lehman
Cultist With Iron Pipe
Thirl R. Haston
Cultist With Sickle
Jake Brake
Cultist With Machete
Tim J. Smith
Cultist With Hatchet
Jeff Dashnaw
Cowboy With Cattle Prod
Tim Trella
Cultist With Sledge
James Hebert
Man in Leather Jacket
Kenneth Wayne Bradley
Man in Wig
Kendrick Hudson
Burly Dude
Michael Papajohn
Tattooed Guy
April Littlejohn
Business Woman
Henry Kingi
Thin Old Man
Simona Williams
Lady in Leopard Skin
Shelby Swatek
Truck Driving Woman
Kimberly Shannon Murphy
Girl in Morgan

Critic Reviews for Drive Angry

All Critics (111) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (62) | DVD (9)

The appeal of Drive Angry is much the same as that of Piranha: a willingness to revel in absurdity to the degree where the exhilaration is infectious.

February 28, 2011 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

So awful it's almost great. But no, it's just awful.

February 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com

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Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

Being stoned or otherwise buzzed might help.

February 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

It's actually refreshing that Lussier and Farmer don't belabor the film's internal mythology of satanic cults, hell and the devil's administrative assistants.

February 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Great title -- shame about the movie.

February 25, 2011 Full Review Source: CNN.com

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Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

Drive Angry is pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold.

February 25, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

...a tedious waste of time...

October 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A rather straightforward supernatural-heroism tale straining oh-so-very-hard to be indecent.

June 15, 2011 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

It's The Crow meets Death Proof, but without the cool Violent Femmes songs or Tarantino's snappy dialogue . . .

June 8, 2011 Full Review Source: iAfrica.com

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James O'Ehley

iAfrica.com

The Citizen Kane of exploitation flicks.

May 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Grae Drake

Movies.com

The film is saved, not by its star, but by a supporting turn from William Fichtner as The Accountant, an underworld bounty hunter stalking Milton's every move.

April 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire

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Martin Roberts

Fan The Fire

It hits the sweet spots of Loony Tunes sex, violence, cars and exploding things more often than it misses.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

'Drive Angry' is all over the road.

March 25, 2011 Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa)

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Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Like watching incredibly explosive paint dry.

March 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Ultra Culture

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Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

Whereas the recent Machete managed to both pay homage to its celluloid ancestors while emerging as an entertaining movie in its own right, this one ultimately proves to be a drag, getting off to a gleeful start before losing its way.

March 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

This is entertainment, grind house style, polished up a bit.

March 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

I love grindhouse throwbacks, I really do. I just wish the big studios would get it right for once...

March 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Delivers...car- and revenge-porn. No surprise there, but nothing of much interest either. Especially coming after the carnage of so much pulpy fiction, backstories and explanations drag, while gestures towards emotion seem pointless.

March 8, 2011 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Drive Angry a tedious ride.

March 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Illinois Times

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Charles Koplinski

Illinois Times

If there's a movie more devoid of raison d'�tre than this, I haven't seen it.

March 6, 2011 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com

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Tony Medley

tonymedley.com Source: tonymedley.com

I miss David Carradine and Warren Oates.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

A calculatedly over-the-top grindhouse-inspired rabble-rouser, marred by the self-congratulatory 'hipness' of its callously comic attitude toward violence.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

full review at Movies for the Masses

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

It fetishises acts of brutal violence; it fetishises gorgeously preserved early-70s muscle cars; in an extremely distant third place, it manages, just barely, to fetishise naked women

March 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

It's like a discarded episode from Grindhouse, only longer and less funny.

March 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

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What a highly action I ever seen on the road and the plot involving it's hero breaking out of hell. Clearly inspired by the Grindhouse aesthetics of Machete and Planet Terror, Drive Angry offers over the top action that's complemented by an over the top performance from Nicholas Cage (is there any other kind

May 4, 2010

Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

A pulp B-Grade revenge actioneer with C-Grade execution, 'Drive Angry' is a hallmark of poor film techniques working in unison, inside of a genre that relishes bad filmmaking. Overacting, emotional complacency, forceful plot elements, laughable dialogue, bad effects - it's all on display. In the grindhouse formula -

September 18, 2011

Kalel Johnston

Super Reviewer

Drive Angry Quotes

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1. Piper: Between now and then, I'm 'a mess you up.
– Submitted by James W (5 months ago)
1. Piper: Gimme one good reason I shouldn't shoot you in the face.
2. Milton: I'm driving.
– Submitted by Larissa L (7 months ago)
1. Teen #1: Will we ever see you again?
2. The Accountant: I won't see you for 73 years.
3. Teen #2: What about me?
4. The Accountant: You, I'll see in three months.
5. Teen #2: What's that mean?! Three months! What's that mean?
– Submitted by Robert K (8 months ago)
1. Milton: Jesus!
2. The Accountant: Carpenter
– Submitted by Boris d (10 months ago)
1. Milton: There is compassion in Hell.
– Submitted by rob g (11 months ago)

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