Many a night I had to come home and dress some wounds. I think there’s something to be said for going home, tired, bruised and a little broken - you know, scraped and all that. Yeah, well I didn’t want my stunt double to have all the fun. RT: You look like you were physically involved in a lot of those fights. They definitely hit casting on this one, because I can’t imagine a better role. ![]() Oh, and the icing on the cake was the ’69 Charger. ![]() It was the fast cars, loud explosions, great music, big guns and saving the world with Nicolas Cage - in a pair of Daisy Dukes. RT: What got you interested in this - was it Nicolas, or the cars? ![]() We caught up with Heard for a chat ahead of the film’s release, and asked her about her role alongside Johnny Depp in Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of Hunter S. The part calls for plenty of lurid cussin’, dirty fist fights, and blowing people away with large weaponry… while somehow managing to be sweet in the process. Heard plays tough Southern girl Piper, who, after catching out (and beating the crap out of) her no-good cheating boyfriend, finds herself on the run with Nicolas Cage’s escapee from Hell. It came as no surprise, then, to discover Amber Heard’s enthusiasm for both the fast and scuzzy sensibility of the movie and her co-star’s typically unusual performance, which includes - in a move inspired, says Cage, by poet laureate Walt Whitman - his character Milton drinking beer from the bloodied skull of a deceased foe. Any film where Nic Cage kills 6 people in a hotel room while continuing to have sex with a woman and without putting the 5th of Jack in his other hand down has truly shown that it has mastered the art of cinema.For a Texan-born actress with a love for classic American muscle cars (she drives a ’68 Mustang), starring opposite Nicolas Cage in a grindhouse-style thriller called Drive Angry would seem like the ideal role. Low budget versions of the matrix reloaded rave scene? Uh, Check. Guns that send people to purgatory? Check. Overall this movie hits all the bullet points for a great action flick. Any actor who can make you believe that they really are the character they are portraying on screen is doing a masterful job. I literally thought that it was his real hair. The third co-star that really gives a stunning performance is Nic Cage's wig. Throughout the movie, Fichtner plays the role of a stoic and serious warden from the underworld in a charming and delightful way. Fichtner plays the Marshall from hell, a servant to Satan who is presented the task of capturing and returning Nic Cage's Milton to hell. The only performance that comes anywhere close to Cage's brilliance is that of of William Fichtner's. Heard is a beautiful woman, but just because this movie objectifies her doesn't mean I have to as well. When I say Amber Heard is fiery hot, I mean it as in the passion that she shows in helping Cage reclaim his family member. Amber Heard plays his side-kick, a fiery hot girl that joins Cage in getting his granddaughter back from Billy Burke who, as the cult leader has kidnapped her and killed Cage's daughter. Besides Nic Cage's Oscar worthy performance in this action flick, the 3 co-stars absolutely fill in the gaps that the light of Cage's star power cannot. Need I say more? If you haven't run out to buy 3 copies of this film just from reading that sentence, then maybe you need to have your pulse checked. This movie has Nic Cage who has escaped from hell in a muscle car to avenge the death of his daughter at the hands of a satanic cult leader. "But these are all masterpieces of the medium," you may be asking "How could this movie that has a lowly 5.4 Metascore be better than those classics?" Well I'll tell you why this movie is better. Better than Casablanca, Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction. Drive angry 3D is the best movie ever made.
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