Terrible, terrible, terrible (3000 Miles To Graceland (DVD))

Member Name: john316

Product:	3000 Miles To Graceland (DVD)
Date:	05/03/02 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Courteney Cox, Kurt Russell

Disadvantages: Everything else

Now this is a truly awful movie.

Every aspect of this mess is atrocious. The directing and the editing are especially lame. The big casino heist couldn't be less exciting. There are a lot of motion-effected shots added in an attempt to make things more intense (slo-mo of a gun coming out a holster, sped up shot of gun firing, "strobe-motion" of guy dying), but they only prove to make things more confusing. Everything about this film is so aesthetically unpleasing that I have to wonder how these filmmakers were assigned something with such a large budget.

I don't know why I wasted my time watching this film. I felt compelled to write about it only because it's THAT bad. I don't like to criticize people for liking movies that I despise, but in this case I honestly can't understand why ANYONE would even partially enjoy it.

When I think of a bad action movie with high entertainment value, "Commando" leaps to mind, perhaps because it didn't try to take itself too seriously. In this case, we get the feeling that the filmmakers and the actors genuinely think that their characters are "cool," and they're SERIOUS about it! Right away, we think everyone onscreen is a bonehead -- Ice-T? Christian Slater? David Arquette? For God's sake, have a bigger bunch of losers ever appeared together in one film? It takes more than sunglasses, cigarettes, slo-mo, and sideburns to make characters "cool," and it takes infinitely more than what's available here to make them compelling.

The only decent things in the whole movie are the lovely Courteney Cox who looks simply amazing in the whole film - better than she has ever looked. Also Kurt Russell is pretty good in it playing the loveable rogue character he has mastered once again

Just to sum up the bad points for you (there were so many!): Bad writing, directing, acting, cinematography, editing, music....I'm willin
g to bet the craft service table was atrocious.

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