Drive Angry 2011

Critics score:
45 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: It is hard to imagine Drive Angry sustaining this level of trash-tastic hysterical hokum, and I regret to inform you that it does not, even with all of the above in 3-D. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Makes a loud, incoherent but oddly compelling case for the enhancing effects of stereoscopic projection on certain treasured objects of the cinematic gaze, like classic Detroit muscle cars, women's breasts and Nicolas Cage. Read more

Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's the worst kind of bad: Boring bad. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Drive Angry is a Steve Vai solo album of a movie, never letting a second pass without asserting its awesomeness, and thus rarely being awesome. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It must be handed to Nicolas Cage. He continues to boldly go where few actors willingly do: the Dumpster. His career now is almost completely reverse-engineered. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Cage passes the torch to the next generation of scene-chewing actors as he's graciously out-Caged by both Burke and shark-eyed William Fichtner as The Accountant Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: A trio of stridently weird performances -- from Nicolas Cage, William Fichtner, and David Morse -- brighten this otherwise rote actioner. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Another John Milton wrote: "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." Cage's character would concur, heartily, before reloading. Read more

Tom Charity, CNN.com: Great title -- shame about the movie. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Drive Angry 3-Dis a movie so wantonly ridiculous, so aggressively stupid, it demands you make fun of it. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Cage has forged his own hell, and it's called: the movies he's addicted to making, even when they trash his brand. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: I just wonder if these resources couldn't have been used for something, you know, actually good? Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: There's hellfire and hot rods aplenty here, but a mindless exploitation entry that should have been appallingly awesome instead marshals too little style or intentional humor. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: It's actually refreshing that Lussier and Farmer don't belabor the film's internal mythology of satanic cults, hell and the devil's administrative assistants. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's hard to care when the CGI is so obvious and Cage's character so clearly invincible. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Drive Angry is pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: So awful it's almost great. But no, it's just awful. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I can't say I enjoyed it. But I can appreciate it. It offends every standard of taste except bad. But it is well made. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Being stoned or otherwise buzzed might help. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: To its shameless credit, Drive Angry has a knack for stacking its cliches in mind-boggling arrangements. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A movie that could have left skid marks on our psyche - in 3-D no less - instead drives us to distraction with verbose line readings that kill momentum worse than a police flashlight shining through a parked windshield. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: 'Drive Angry' is a mish-mash of familiar elements, but it's all lashed together with such relentless drive, blunt invention and pitch-black wit that it's hard not to get dragged along by it. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: Sharp 3D lensing and low-octane camp humor help rev up Drive Angry. Read more

Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: Even at its most lurid, though, the movie is a little dull. And it only gets less compelling as the backstory fills in. Read more