Drive Angry 3D
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: February 25, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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12
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5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 28, 2011
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 full review
75
MovielineStephanie ZacharekFeb 26, 2011
There's even a shootout sequence that plays out, from start to finish, while our hero is in flagrante. That's something I don't believe I've ever seen in a movie. Read full review
70
VarietyRob NelsonFeb 25, 2011
Despite amply funded f/x, including some spectacular muscle-car stunts, the movie motors to the grindhouse with squealing tires and guitars, gratuitous nudity and gore, and a scantily clad greasy-spoon waitress endearingly played by Amber Heard. Read full review
63
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreFeb 25, 2011
Heard sets herself up as a Megan Fox with talent. And Cage? He delivers. Mock him for his bad choices if you will, but consider this. Who else could have made this work, or would even want to? Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonFeb 26, 2011
Almost as bad as we want it to be, which is to say, it straddles the line between campy and legit without winning over either audience. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderBen SachsFeb 25, 2011
A trio of stridently weird performances--from Nicolas Cage, William Fichtner, and David Morse--brighten this otherwise rote actioner. Read full review
50
Washington PostMark JenkinsMar 3, 2011
"Drive Trashy" would be a more accurate title for the first 45 minutes of this gore-spurting, sex-flaunting romp. And that's the good part. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 26, 2011
Apart from some half-cartoonish digital effects and the whole 3-D thing, Drive Angry could almost be mistaken for a raunchy, cheesy exploitation programmer of the same vintage as some of its cars. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 26, 2011
Pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFeb 26, 2011
It all hangs together, more or less, which seems like enough. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFeb 25, 2011
Here is an exercise in deliberate vulgarity, gross excess, and the pornography of violence, not to forget garden variety pornography. You get your money's worth. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasFeb 25, 2011
Drive Angry feels like a five-minute Comic Con show reel that's been expanded beyond its limits. It's agonizingly cool. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyFeb 25, 2011
Strictly for the midnight-movie crowd, Drive Angry serves up a non-stop stream of female nudity, flying body parts, gun battles and smart-alecky dialogue. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 25, 2011
Director Patrick Lussier and his co-screenwriter Todd Farmer string together smash-up car chases, hyper-violent physical clashes, flying viscera and a dollop of sex and nudity with ludicrous dialogue and only a passing concern for logic in this high-octane trash. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 25, 2011
We've seen Nicolas Cage when he's angry-and we like him when he's angry. So why does this painfully loud revenge movie skimp on the Cage rage? Read full review
40
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Feb 22, 2011
A shambling, ponderous mess that aims to be a trashy cult classic and merely ends up in the trash - Fichtner aside. And, in the biggest disappointment of all, there's not even that much angry driving in it. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 26, 2011
Patrick Lussier is listed as The Director, though I saw no evidence of anyone in control. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFeb 26, 2011
Even the film's one "original" twist is just a desperate attempt to link it up to Ghost Rider, the only lousy Nicolas Cage action film that is actually spawning a sequel. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 3, 2011
"When you race with the devil, you'd better be fast as hell." (And you, angry driver, are not that fast.) Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonFeb 26, 2011
Cage's avenger is named Milton; this reference to the author of Paradise Lost is the sole hint that Old World culture ever existed in Drive Angry's convoy of hyperbolized-unto-parody Americana: bad drawls, obese gawkers, roadhouse demonology, coochie-cutter shorts, and engines revving under guitar stomp. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisFeb 26, 2011
Drive Angry is something new for Cage - a movie that feels like it's straight FROM cable. Read full review
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