"3000 Miles To Graceland" is one of the most violent films in a long time. The body count rivals that of World War 2, the blood quotient rivals that of Reservoir Dogs and there are enough bullets fired to justify changing the title to "3000 Bullets To Graceland", but the movie is entertaining as hell.
Being an action I personally loved this movie, but that doesn't mean I recommend it to everyone. This movie will appall some people and make others leave 15 minutes into the movie. But one area in which this movie won't disappoint is pleasing it's target audience, 20 something males looking for more bullets than plot, and for that I applaud it.
Now on to the movie itself. As most of you know it's about how five Elvis impersonator's(Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Christian Slater, Bokeem Woodbine, David Arquette) rob the Riviera casino during an Evis convention. As you can expect the usual double-crossing ensues and without revealing plot points I can say a lot of people end up dead and somehow a con-artist mother(Courtney Cox-Arquette) and her klepto-maniac son(David Kaye) end up on the run with the survivors with 3.2 million at stake. Through all the commotion two FBI agents(Thomas Haden-Church, Kevin Pollak), a high priced helicopter pilot(Howie Long), a shady but weasely money launderer(Jon Lovits) and an independent killer(Ice-T) get involved.
Well if your looking for a entertaining 'guy movie' or plain and simply a blood bath, see "3000 Miles To Graceland". But if your looking for a smart, plot driven thriller steer clear of this movie. I give it 7/10
Being an action I personally loved this movie, but that doesn't mean I recommend it to everyone. This movie will appall some people and make others leave 15 minutes into the movie. But one area in which this movie won't disappoint is pleasing it's target audience, 20 something males looking for more bullets than plot, and for that I applaud it.
Now on to the movie itself. As most of you know it's about how five Elvis impersonator's(Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Christian Slater, Bokeem Woodbine, David Arquette) rob the Riviera casino during an Evis convention. As you can expect the usual double-crossing ensues and without revealing plot points I can say a lot of people end up dead and somehow a con-artist mother(Courtney Cox-Arquette) and her klepto-maniac son(David Kaye) end up on the run with the survivors with 3.2 million at stake. Through all the commotion two FBI agents(Thomas Haden-Church, Kevin Pollak), a high priced helicopter pilot(Howie Long), a shady but weasely money launderer(Jon Lovits) and an independent killer(Ice-T) get involved.
Well if your looking for a entertaining 'guy movie' or plain and simply a blood bath, see "3000 Miles To Graceland". But if your looking for a smart, plot driven thriller steer clear of this movie. I give it 7/10