The cage Review: Drive Angry

Wow. If there was ever a movie where at the end of it you say, "Wow...that's totally not what I thought it was going to be," then Drive Angry (2011) was most certainly it. In the description of the movie, nowhere does it indicate a supernatural action thriller. After I got done watching the movie this is the exact moment I had reenacted in text form to the best of my ability:

"Um..."


*crickets*

Yeah. That about covers it. The description in the Netflix world said it was about a man (Nicolas Cage) who escapes prison to seek vengeance on the cult members who murdered his daughter. So...yeah...I expected a movie about a guy who...well...did just that. What they fail to mention is that by escaping "prison" they really mean "hell". No. Seriously. Not metaphorically. Literally. As much as I hate giving away details that would otherwise spoil the surprises of a movie, I feel I must at the very least give away a few smidgens of info. 1. Nicolas Cage, named Milton in this movie, has, in fact, escaped from hell. 2. The cult members are psychos in every sense of the word and are trying to sacrifice Milton's infant granddaughter, because...well...that's what this cult does. 3. There's a guy with supernatural abilities called The Accountant (William Fichtner) who is after Milton to take him back to hell and whistles silly tunes as he drives. (Seriously.) 4. There is a whole lot of things in this movie that only a select group of people would otherwise enjoy (i.e. blood, blood, nudity, and more blood.) Milton is off to eradicate this cult and save the infant and place her in the hands of someone (Cage's co-star and unlady-like and unsuspecting partner in vengeance) who will raise her and love her after he goes back to "jail". I can't say it has a happy ending. But it was a...um...how do I word this? It was an ending where the bad guys lost and the baby lives. Does that work?

As much as I love Nicolas Cage, I must say that this was an odd one. But! True to my word, I will watch all of his movies and with the great ones come the slightly odd and wrongly described ones. I can't say that I would recommend this movie to anyone, but it did keep me interested. I, like so many of the good people of this world, have become moderately desensitized to blood and naughty language. But there was a bit more of both in it than I have tolerance for. There were some moments that left me out of my comfort zone and I'll avoid watching this one again in the future. Thanks Mr. Cage for your acting versatility, but I gotta go with a 2 star rating. Because as it says on the chart...eh, it has Cage in it.