Drive Angry 3D The Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse
(Friday finally available in Germany in the theatrical version) does not like movie success, but its effects on the film landscape are obvious. In the years before action films were the third team more geared to the riot film, as ProSieben at the weekend after the prime time shows ("The Ice-T and [hump ]..."), no one knows the weak free-riders of films such as
Red Alert . Since
Grindhouse seems the classic exploitation film again to take bigger space. Mostly in the form of hyper-active, self-deprecating and thick applied parodies / homages like
Machete ,
Black Dynamite or
Bitch Slap .
The first trailer for
Drive Angry 3D let him look like a machete
version of Death Proof
. Meaning: A man uses his car to kill people. As in
Death Proof. Just bloody faster, wilder. A deeply ironic, his themes loving parody of '70s exploitation films. For in the fictional universe in which
Grindhouse feature was a real Doble with two genuine, old pulp movies and there is a restaurant called Acuna Boys, was Quentin Tarantino's
Thunderbolt no such purely on the production and exhibition value ironed
Planet Terror . It was a film of an ambitious, technically not one hundred percent experienced director who would like to see his directorial work in Cannes. The Thunderbolt was
not, perhaps, but he ran well respected for a few more cultivated festival - where he was bought up by a sleazy lender, and then exploited. Until he became Death Proof
.
Drive Angry 3D is no such film as Grindhouse . Neither the exploitation illusion education is so complex and suitable for fun speculation, as in
Death Proof , nor is
Drive Angry 3D so weird and extreme as
Planet Terror . Instead
, Drive Angry 3D a true exploitation films, as it would discuss
The Cinema Snob . Just having to resort to modern animation techniques and the characters now and then use modern technology (the carts are mostly pretty old-timers, but as with
Death Proof , there are also modern mobile phones).
Because
Drive Angry 3D is not a post-modern processing of such action films, but simply a modern representative of this current film, also the potential audience will be arranged more clearly. Of course are the brains behind
Drive Angry 3D no unworldly spinner, who see their marked with supernatural elements revenge strip high art. Director Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3D) is none the likes of Ed Wood. Much more he knows he is shooting a bare, very modest and relatively coarse entertainment film - only it's not celebrated like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. So if
Machete to self-referential and was too broken in, or who
Planet Terror and Black Dynamite over the top place, but finds joy in Exploitation could
Drive Angry 3D rather are among his favorites. If However, one needs the post-modern veil to goutieren content trash could stagnate at
Drive Angry 3D grumbling in the passenger seat.
The story is consistently so, as one might expect from such a film, and also mixes happily with Satanism, revenge-exploitation-exploitation and a nice dose of classic-car-Porn. No, no rampant sex in old cars, but it's in 3D has
Drive Angry course, about the car pretty sizable set the scene - before they unfortunately in wild car rides, unfortunately, a little to be demolished.
The ex-con John Milton (Nicolas Cage) is on a bloody campaign of revenge: Jonah King (Billy Burke), the leader of a satanic cult, has abused his daughter and killed, next to Milton's grand-daughter to be sacrificed during an incantation. As Milton (selbstverfreilich using deadly force) by a follower of this cult experiences is to take place where the child victim, he sabotaged the dashing vintage waitress Piper (Amber Heard), so as to have the still long way to a mobile (and appealing) base . klinch fresh in with her fiance, is followed by the mysterious Piper at Milton. But Milton police adhered to the heel - and a mysterious "bookmaker" ...
The story delivers what is demanded in a modern exploitation movie (in the old-fashioned garb): It is tough, fast, simple and manages to even in non-action scenes to keep the interest of the public. hitch with the voltage it a little bit because some of it is quite predictable. Thus, the supernatural component from the audience recognized much faster than it loves the film. As one would quickly have to put the cards on the table - or they better keep secret.
praise I must say that the drawn in
Drive Angry 3D idea of hell is quite smart and quite imaginative. While Nicolas Cage's role is not much more than a modification of the Ghost Riders, is the Film universe around him but a lot fresher. Like the "reality" of the hell of the occult association is opposed to the film, as the border between our and the underworld is drawn, that's all tremendously transparent. I would like to see more exploitation films, which are located in
Drive Angry 3D universe, only I will not get the humble in the face of box office receipts well. Not to mention a possible crossover with other shooting movies.
The question naturally arises: How does Nicolas Cage? In such trash productions he finally knows two modes: Insane cool "and" totally obsessed. " In
Drive Angry 3D adopt Cage rather cool, because manic. Sounds in the face of the title might at first strange doing the film but ultimately well, which would have pushed a wildly gesticulating and roaring Cage's great scenes suddenly towards exploitation parody
Much like Cage does not remain deadly serious, yet the "integrity" of the film preserved by it (was to be expected as perhaps) is not just perfect the leather pulls, are attracted by the action, the limits of this neo-Exploitationstreifens, without in
Machete - to migrate or
Planet Terror Territory . The impressive passages staged action live on big Explosions, fast shooting and excessive force. Since blood injected through the area, body parts flying through the air and what is otherwise so. All very pleasing, but I missed a big "Wow!" Effect, it was an innovative spark or a spectacular fight choreography. The best example might be the shoot in a Country-Restaurant/Motel, in which Nicolas Cage's character with bold sunglasses on his nose, and a huge cigar in his mouth and a hand gun in the other armed with whiskey rannimmt a waitress, when suddenly almost unending stream end to rogue storm the room. "Coitus Uninteruptus" then the motto is: Cage provides for further physical pleasure, while dodging the bullets of his enemies with her across the room and rolls with a straight face wegballert everything that stands in his way. That's impressive, tasteless, hard and so funny, how to be just before crossing the border into parody territory, just not as impressive and compelling as a damn similar scene in Clive Owens
Genre distillate Shoot'em Up . And when I complain about the action shortly: I was actually there are too many fist fights / shootings and too rapid Rumgekurve - the movie might as well
Be Anrgy or
Shoot Angry can read. Or
Highway from Hell.
director Patrick Lussier is handcrafted and technically accomplished;
Drive Angry 3D is perhaps the handsomest "serious" movie of the trash I've ever been and that's what 3D is fantastic (at any moment to something else). Only he seems to just turn down the film that way - it lacks the feverishness of such ambitious muddle-headed as
Crank s Neveldine / Taylor nunmal the perverted understanding of art by Rodriguez or Tarantino.
Drive Angry 3D is the effect too much like The Expendables
: Satisfied with what he is. The film is there, not ground and therefore slightly below its potential. At least outside of the 3-factor. Because wow, Lussier with the third dimension can handle extremely well. The image is sharp, has an extensive depth and of course he takes every opportunity imaginable to throw something contrary to the public. What would suck in
Toy Story 3 and Co., is her way here ausgeschröpft. Of coins into the audience on outstanding baseball bat to cut in half mandibles, which is in the air, also projects a good boy and handsome in the movie theater. But even the quiet scenes are impressive: How often are oodles smoke a tangible acts "fog" between cinema and the deep canvas, other times we see the classic car fleets during the evening becoming later and later at the other end of an extensive field of grain. The stuffed with tons of CGI
Avatar and
Tron: Legacy (assuming optimal cinema Equipment) I have seen in any live action better depth. Pearls before swine? No - more incentive for supposedly "real" filmmakers to make an effort. If that can Lussier, can the other also determined.
would otherwise have to the other actors to respond: Well, as one views the rest of the cast, has to do again on the slope of this subgenre. For example, I was Billy Burke as a Satanic cult leader too pale. It is greasy and over-subscribed, but with a symbolic armature hand brake. The script cobbled his role some malignancies that he would continue to emphasize - in my opinion, but I'm also not so much the target group of normal exploitation. That
Drive Angry 3D than, say, "High-gloss exploitation" his villains extremely thick stands, without the last piece of mad rauszukitzeln from it, others will surely enjoy. Amber Heard (known from the scrap quality
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane ) is to turn the audience, of course, serve mainly as eye candy, but it has also clearly enjoyed the project and is not just for the money with it. Their role is not simply Anhängel for the Cage, which must be saved from time to time, but can also dish out themselves. Just not enough. Every time I thought "Now! Girl Power! Get out properly and give it to him one on the face !"... it is still being cut down. Or the battle ends elsewhere. We want the old-school audience not to expect so much feminism ...
exception of sensation
Drive Angry 3D William Fichtner (Prison Break
, Black Hawk Down ) who steals a book artist straight out each scene in which he appears. With a mad hilarious screen presence and a nasty gleam in the eyes, he breathed
Drive Angry 3D a bit more innovation and freshness of one; as he would have without him. Be neither villainous nor heroic, but at first clearly and consistently ominous supernatural bookmaker is a delight to watch and he is responsible for the loudest laugh in the movie.
Drive Angry 3D has indeed its nice cool serving of one-liners, but Fichtner dry comments and his suppressed laughter are most valuable. Especially at the end of the film when he burst inside with a mischievous grin in an upcoming shootout ... should in the end credits you better not think about why he acted so at first, he acted as nunmal, but later when this -
The accountant is also the character who suffers most from the script and that is said about his motivation. And I is not a grindhouse justification as "the is so" - not just because
Drive Angry 3D is not to laugh at his own shortcomings.
Whatever his friends for the undemanding, rampant violence is entertainment
Drive Angry 3D worth a look, although he can definitely furious. Who
a parody expected trashy homage could be disappointed, and he who seeks level is always out of place. I myself? I wanted something fast as
Machete ,
Drive Angry 3D was able to talk yet, because although it context- inherited standards and the earthiness of an exploitation classic, but not the small-scale defects. Cage and Fincher are fun, the 3D is great, the action by appealing to a very entertaining evening friends. Okay for a single visit to the cinema, the DVD I will however turn out more.
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