![]() ![]() ![]() His goal: locate cult leader Jonah King (Billy Burke) and reclaim his infant granddaughter, whom King plans to sacrifice during the next full moon. But there's more going on here than meets the eye, as becomes apparent when he saves a waitress, Piper (Amber Heard), from a beating by her boyfriend and joins her on a road trip to Louisiana. ![]() Initially, Milton appears to be some kind of Terminator clone, chasing down bad guys and blowing them away without compunction. In the lead role of "John Milton" (or at least that's what he has chosen to call himself), Nicolas Cage hasn't cleaned up appreciably since the last time he struggled against Satan, last month's Season of the Witch (which would have worked better with a similar over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek approach to the one employed here). It's one of those movies that has to be experienced for what it is. Thinking about Drive Angry is the wrong way to approach the production. Unapologetic about its intentions, the movie uses the framework of a revenge story as a means to dabble in the supernatural and play with themes of Good versus Evil. A combined homage to/parody of '70s exploitation films, Drive Angry shifts into gear and never slows down. 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. ![]()
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