![]() You can't create a cult movie by thinking you're going to create a cult movie. This witless zombie is, fortunately, not fooling anybody. DRIVE ANGRY is a movie that believes it can sell you what you've already seen a thousand times if it's repackaged differently. It doesn't have an ounce of creative light within. It's a rushed, uninspired and lazy piece of shit with no visual identity whatsoever that's trying to cash-in on popular gimmicks: a laconic, muscle-car driving badass, gun fights, car pursuits, an unlikely hero's journey, some of the most witless humour you'll have the misfortune to witness, it's like Todd Farmer and director Patrick Lussier created a collage of cinematographic tricks, yet didn't give it a proper identity. Man, I would love to tell you that this movie is offensively stupid or trying to implant corrosive ideas in your head, but it's just not. They could've been a plumbers union or Jehovah's Witnesses, it wouldn't have made any difference on the storyline.ĭRIVE ANGRY embraces cheap decisions and avoids original thoughts like the plague, which is like inventing a new way of being boring. I mean, Milton has a daughter in hell that is supposed to justify his killing spree despite that you never actually meet the character and empathize with her, the Satanic cult is actually a Satanic cult because they're the guys supposed to do the bad things. This movie just wallows in clichés and easy decisions. It's like to point at laughably bad lines but there aren't. But he really outdid himself with DRIVE ANGRY. Screenwriter Todd Farmer (who stars in the movie as the abusive boyfriend of token love interest Piper) also wrote the reputably bad screenplay of Jason X ( also known as Jason in Space), so he's not stranger to terrible writing. ![]() ![]() In DRIVE ANGRY, it's the opposite and that's the main reason behind its mind numbing lack of depth. They are fishing for great lines or trying to set up ridiculously epic scenes. Let's talk about the screenplay? Usually, screenplays in bad movies try too hard. ![]()
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