
Drive Angry
2011, Adventure/Fantasy, 1h 44m
124 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsWhat to know
critics consensus
It may deliver the over-the-top action pieces, but Drive Angry prefers to work safely within grindhouse formula than do something truly unique. Read critic reviews
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Movie Info
Thrown into hell for his crimes, brutal felon John Milton (Nicolas Cage) escapes from the fiery pit after cultists murder his daughter and take her baby. Intent on rescuing the child, Milton joins forces with a waitress, who gives him her ex-lover's fire-red muscle car. In it, the two pursue the cult leader, who plans to sacrifice the infant and unleash hell on Earth. However, the hunters become the hunted when Satan sends his merciless henchman (William Fichtner) to drag Milton back.
Cast & Crew
Nicolas Cage
John Milton
John Milton
Amber Heard
Piper
Piper
William Fichtner
The Accountant
The Accountant
Billy Burke
Jonah King
Jonah King
Charlotte Ross
Candy
Candy
Christa Campbell
Mona
Mona
Critic Reviews for Drive Angry
Audience Reviews for Drive Angry
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Mar 28, 2013"Give me one good reason I shouldn't shoot you in the face." "I'm Driving." So goes the dialogue in this damn fine entertaining movie. Drive Angry is completely over the top, one of the few newer Nicholas Cage films I like. He's at his dead-pan best here as an escapee from hell. This is a ramapge of redemption, a sweet and salty southern receipe made delicious by its glorious excess. If you liked Ghost Rider, which I didn't, this is a lot better. Its a hellacious beat-down (pun intended). Amber Heard is too sexy to be believed and a complete bad-ass to boot. I also love the way Fichter's and Cage's characters interact. I'm not sure the original John Milton would approve of the hell-on-earth story, but its worth the price of admission. How can anycritic claim this film is tedious? Its ridiculous and absurd yet entertaining as neo-grindhouse is intended.Clintus M Super Reviewer
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Oct 02, 2012[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] The only positive aspect of Drive Angry is the engaging supporting performance of William Fichtner's, but other than that, this is nothing other than totally repulsive garbage. I think it's safe to say that we've all got used to the idea of Nic Cage appearing in trash like this, and we've accepted it because sometimes it's the only redeeming feature of the ridiculously film's he appears in. But I will say there were only two reasons I kept watching the film, because it is so badly plotted, so predictable and so stupid, and it was simply to ponder at the mystery as to why Nic Cage took the role in it, and to see if it would turn out as catastrophic as Death Proof. Other than that, there is no reason to see this movie. It's nothing you haven't seen before even if your looking for trashy exploitation. Firstly it's narrative is incredibly laughable and has no charm whatsoever, and it's attitude towards women is appauling. The action sequences are somehow unbelievably dull, even despite the fact it bombards you with set piece after set piece and extreme amounts of repetitive explosions. So aside from the fact that it's directed badly, acted terribly and has a script that appears to have been written by an adolescent 12 year old. It also features an annoying array of unrealistic characters, an inconsequential narrative and doesn't even work on the lowest common denominator action B movie thriller level. It's a less self-indulgent grindhouse movie than Death Proof, but that doesn't even improve it in any sense really. It's unspeakably awful.Directors C Super Reviewer
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Aug 01, 2012Miserable acting again Nick Cage! Your deal with the devil must be up to get you all these horrible roles! Time to pay the piper! Haha love her for me piper, love her like I never can...croakChad R Super Reviewer
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Jul 08, 2012Few films are made as intentionally bad as Drive Angry is. It revels in cheap, exploitation cinema, and gratuitous sex and violence. The plot's straight out of a B-movie; Milton breaks out of Hell in order to save his granddaughter from being sacrificed by a devil worshiping cult. Nicolas Cage completely phones in his performance and Amber Heard overacts every scene. But William Fichtner's performance is spectacular, and adds a tremendous amount of fun and charisma to the film. If Drive Angry had committed a little more, it might have been so bad it's good; but the film's too self-aware of how bad it's trying to be.Dann M Super Reviewer
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