Drive Angry (2011)

This movie is just pure fun from beginning to end! Nic Cage escapes from Hell, that's all you need to know, oh and this is no Ghost Rider 2! Nic Cage might not be awesome all the time, but when he is... oh boy!!

Directed by Patrick Lussier, who edited all of Wes Craven's later films and directed the remake of My Bloody Valentine, this film was originally shot to take full advantage of the 3D process. It's as close as a grindhouse film as you're going to get when you're spending $29 million to make a film.John Milton (Cage) died ten years ago and went to Hell, but he's broken out and stolen Satan's gun, The Godkiller, to come back and get revenge against Jonah King (Billy Burke, Lights Out and The Twilight Saga), a cult leader who killed Milton's daughter and plans on killing his granddaughter in order to bring Hell to Earth.On his way to the abandoned Stillwater prison to kill the evil cultist, he runs across Piper (Amber Heard, Mera in the upcoming Justice League, the remake of The Stepfather, Machete Kills), a waitress with bad luck in boyfriends. Directly after telling Milton her boyfriend is a good guy, she catches him in bed with a real estate agent. She kicks the woman's naked ass literally to the curb and attacking her boyfriend, who assaults her. Milton saves her and they make their escape by stealing his 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 440.That's when we meet Satan's agent, The Accountant (William Fichtner, as close as we're going to get to a character actor in this day and age). His mission? Get Milton and The Godkiller back to Hell. He carries an Obolos, the coin that the Greeks would put over a dead man's eyes as a payment to Charon, the ferryman for the dead. He can use the coin to become a badge or as a weapon. He kills Piper's boyfriend and takes two cops with him to hunt down Milton.After a night of drinking, both Milton and Piper are hooking up (not with one another, but with folks they found at the bar, though all Piper lets the guy do is paint her nails) when King and his men attack. Milton doesn't even stop having sex with the blonde he's with, shooting and killing numerous men before he gets hit with a taser, which ends up giving her an orgasm — I've never seen that in a movie before!Read more at https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2017/08/28/drive-angry-2011/

Milton (Nicolas Cage) is hunting Satanic cult leader Jonah King (Billy Burke) who murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby. Jonah is about to sacrifice the baby in 3 day's time. Milton gets a ride off of roadside diner waitress Piper (Amber Heard). Meanwhile Milton is pursued by the powerful Accountant (William Fichtner).It's all pumping music and overblown action with a splash of female nudity. Amber Heard is strutting around in her Daisy Dukes. There is a lot to like, but the story isn't that compelling. It is a simplistic balls-out no-holds-bar vulgar entertainment. It's not going to win any awards, but it's good for the midnight crowd.

I gotta give credit to this movie, it's title for starters. I love refreshing stories that make original films. Drive Angry fits that bill. Action star Cage, has excelled again, in bringing us sure rapid fire entertainment, and that's exactly what you get with Drive Angry. Though not one of Cage's best performances, which did earn him raspberry status, the cool, calm, collective Cage is always fun to watch. Somehow, he always involves us, a man on a mission. Here, his mission, is to snatch his baby granddaughter from a religious cult, with only few days to do so. If failing to find her, what will result, is basically a hell on earth, as the infant, is to be sacrificed, for evil purposes. We have heavy doses of violence, so over the top, it isn't funny, amongst some shocks and surprises in a darn original story that never lets up. Featuring some quite nasty characters, none more than Billy Burke, the stealer of this show, (what else has this guy done?) as the evil religious leader, who you can't wait to see square off with Cage, you've got 100 minutes of compulsive viewing with a nice little twist at the end. William Fichter is great and commandingly cool, as The Accountant, a sort of guardian angel figure to Cage, who at first, you think is really one of the bad guys. Amber Heard adds sexy female involvement to this tale. An exciting action spectacle and movie experience like this, is something you don't wanna miss, believe me. It almost should be mandatory, in fact.