No. Not only is 'Drive Angry' the title of the movie, it was descriptive of me during the next morning's drive to work. Wow. The acting was just bad. Nicolas Cage and Kevin Costner share the same trait of being either really good, or really bad. For instance, in 'The Rock' with Sean Connery and 'Leaving Las Vegas' with Elizabeth Shue, Cage was awesome. Here, I don't know...stilted and all. Perhaps all of the action and violence and mayhem was a catharsis to make up for the string of Disneyesque contract movies (National Treasure 1 to infinity and The Sorcerer's Apprentice) that lack any knarly language and mayhem.
Character actor William Fichtner was the sole acting gem in the entire thing...unless you consider the extras who played dead people...I didn't see any of them move, so for me, they were pretty believable. Fichtner's work and some of the killer lines were just wasted here. Really appalling was the acting of Amber Heard. Who is she? I guess that because Jessica Simpson's acting skills are so good and so in demand, Jessica was too busy for this role, so her understudy Heard was tapped for the role of Piper.
Cinematography was fine, acting was bad, directing was good, the script was great, but again, the potential for some genuine "Dirty Harry" caliber moments and lines was just wasted on poor delivery.
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