Why is drive angry rated r

Cage in particular, who has given such gleefully nutty performances in the past Bad Lieutenant , etc. Regardless, the overall package will appeal to adult moviegoers who like this kind of way-over-the-top material.

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Drive Angry. Movie review by Jeffrey M. Anderson , Common Sense Media. Ridiculously violent grindhouse-style movie isn't for kids. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. He's the Devil's Right Hand Man, and with him veteran character actor William Fitchner "The Perfect Storm" takes his place at the table that includes Anthony Hopkins and Alan Rickman — a player whose villains are the perfect balance for the hero.

Editor-turned-co-writer and director Patrick Lussier "My Bloody Valentine" beats us to death with this movie, a picture that, frankly, had me going "Yeah, I get the idea" at the minute mark. The 3-D hurls bullets and cars and bodies and car parts and body parts at us, to comic effect. But it ends meekly and predictably. The script is just snappy enough to get by, propped up by creative uses of the F-Bomb. 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? Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Tracking him we have William Fitchner as "The Accountant," and he is without a doubt the best thing in this movie.

Fitchner does a lot of supporting role work, and you might best remember him as the mob-connected bank manager in the opening scenes of The Dark Knight. The man is obviously having such a great time in this movie, but he manages to contain it just enough to where you feel like you're sharing an inside joke with him. He's funny, dry and some of the subtle expressions that travel across his face put a grin on mine just thinking about it.

If there's one thing that might tempt me to see this film again, it's his character and performance. Amber Heard holds her own throughout the film as the tough-as-nails redneck chick - I was actually pretty surprised. Then again, it could be the film that surrounds her that makes her performance seem better than it is However, when incredible actor David Morse appears as Webster, Milton's old friend, the comparison is jarring. Within seconds literally Morse completely owns the scenes in which he appears with Cage and Heard and it just makes the differences in performance quite glaring.

Tom Atkins also has a small role in the film, and he chews up the scenery like it's the last, best film he'll ever do - really over the top - but again, it's the sort of performance that makes you smile. A speeding pickup containing three men fishtails sideways and stops, a speeding red car with bullet holes in its sides comes into view, the truck departs and the car's driver fires a large-barreled gun at it; the truck flips end over end, stops on its roof and two men crawl out onto the pavement.

A man says that Hell is walking on Earth as he fires into a line of gasoline on the street; it ignites, and spreads to an overturned truck, which explodes in flames and smoke. On a bridge, a man in one car tells a man in another car that he will kill the woman in the back seat; the second man fires a gun, the first man dodges, and the second man pulls out a rifle and fires, the bullet grazes the other man's cheek, the vehicle goes over the bridge to the embankment below, and we see the man unharmed with a wide scratch on the cheek.

A man drives a fuel tanker into the back of a roadblock, police and vehicles scatter, and the truck rolls over police cruisers, igniting them and itself and blowing up in flames in the background as the fugitives escape in their car. A man and a woman encounter a roadblock and a trooper tells about 50 troopers with rifles to aim at their heads.

A man holds a knife to the throat of a woman. A TV reporter announces that a religious sect is responsible for a string of murders. LANGUAGE 9 - About 48 F-words and derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 4 sexual references, 9 scatological references, 6 anatomical references, 18 mild obscenities, 11 instances of name-calling crazy, bad, little girl, boys, fat, cop killer, shrink, handsome devil , 15 stereotypical references to women, Texans, Southerners, FBI agents, state troopers, the devil, Hell, hitchhikers, human sacrifices, paranormal phenomenon, 3 religious profanities, 6 religious exclamations.

SUBSTANCE USE - A clothed man smokes a cigar and drinks from a whiskey bottle while having sex with a nude woman he is carrying and engaging in a long gunfight with several other people, several bar scenes show beer bottles on tables and people drinking beer from bottles and cans, in an outdoor scene a woman holds a beer bottle and a man holds a beer can neither drinks , a cult scene shows people dancing while drinking from beer cans and beer bottles and shooting guns in the air, a cooler of beer bottles and cans sits next to a crate of firearms and ammunition, and a man pours beer from a bottle into a human skull, points it to the audience as he speaks and spills beer forward in 3D.

A woman smokes a cigarette while leaning on a car door, and two teen boys light up a cigar and smoke it together under a viaduct.