The tone of the film is set in a shoot out with some of King’s acolytes, with Milton blasting off limbs and making it clear he has no intention of taking prisoners. Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast as the grim-faced anti-hero, dressed in black and out to take bloody revenge. At the same time as they have to dodge assassins and cops, also after Milton is a mysterious figure called The Accountant (William Fichtner, playing his role for dark laughs), who has been dispatched to bring Milton back to hell. Milton smartly teams up with feisty waitress Piper (an impressive Amber Heard), who also happens to drive a super-cool turbo-charged ’69 Dodge Charger, and they set off hot-on-the-heels of King and his clan.
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So when murderous quasi-messiah Jonah King (Billy Burke) killed his daughter with plans to sacrifice her baby daughter under the next full moon, Milton crashes out of hell with just three days to track down King and his devil-worshipping followers. The film manages to blend black comedy, black magic and full-tilt action, and while it does lag a little in the middle-third, the sheer pace and outrageousness keeps Drive Angry on-track.Įscaped criminal John Milton (Cage) – yes, a none-too-subtle reference to the classic John Milton epic poem Paradise Lost – deserted his daughter when she was young, but when incarcerated him hell his punishment was to watch what happened to all those he loved still on earth. The film also offers up the perfect role for Nicolas Cage’s trademark intense on-the-edge weirdness (as compared with the genial wackiness he used in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) as a vengeful ex-con who breaks out of hell – literally – to hunt down the satanic group who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby daughter. The film manages to blend black comedy, black magic and full-tilt action.ĭirector Patrick Lussier and his screenwriting partner Todd Farmer flexed their 3-D knuckles with the successful horror film My Bloody Valentine, and with Drive Angry try their hand at the classic car chase film but with a little supernatural horror thrown in for good measure. The mix of car chases, naked bodies, gunfights and occult madness means an adult film classification and a miss of the lucrative teen market, but if it gets the right word-of-mouth reaction it could be something of a cult hit. Drive Angry is perhaps the ultimate B-Movie…an all-action exploitation film brimming with blood, breasts and bullets that really does deliver in terms of raw and raucous action-adventure thrills.
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