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Summary: just turn off your brain (it helps)
Review: Great Movie and I thoroughly enjoyed it and would watch it again.It's just an observation but the negative reviews for this movie are some of the longest reviews I've ever witnessed on Amazon. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to hate this movie in intricate detail. I must admit that I enjoy Kurt Russell's and Kevin Costner's acting style so I found this movie likable even before I watched it. I also enjoyed the comic book way the story is told. Extreme camera angles and the "music video" approach to directing was appealing to me. There is some comedy in this movie if you choose to look for the subtle humor. It's just a movie about bad people doing bad things with some Elvis thrown it for the fun of it. Before the movie was over I found myself asking my wife: "Do people this ruthless really exist?" My wife hated the movie by the way, but that's another story. I know I'll get blasted for saying this but: If you like semi dark movies like Fargo or Raising Arizona but with a little more violence then you'll probably enjoy 3000 miles to Graceland. Elvis would certainly have been flattered or disgusted. Take your pick.
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Summary: Assault of the Morality Mob (on this movie)
Review: This movie rocks! It's a fast-paced, in your face action flick with a musical score to match. Yeah, it's got gratuitous violence and some far-fetched parts, but it doesn't bore you with too many details and criss-crossing sub-plots. It's a lot better than the over-cast and over-rated Oceans Eleven. I cant believe the slamming this movie got from some reviewers. Why do these righteous do-gooders even watch a movie like this? They know its not going to give them their required daily dose of morality, so why dont they stick to "G" rated movies? I'm tempted to give this movie a 5-star rating just to offset their attack on this movie. Give 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND a chance, and then decide. Dont allow the morality mob to win by poisioning this review. It's an organized attempt to disuade you. And it's far from the worst movie I've ever seen.
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Summary: "A little less conversation, a little more action"...
Review: ...would appear to be the director's philosophy, anyway (well, along with "let's see how many different shots we can fit into twenty-five seconds of film"). This movie is bad. And by "bad", I don't mean "good". I mean really, horrifyingly, brain-numbingly, I-Want-To-Jam-My-Eye-Onto-Something-Pointy bad. Still want to know what happens? Well, okay. There are five men, who rob a casino by dressing up as Elvis and killing a lot of people. When they've done that... oh, I don't know exactly what happens. But does plot really matter, in a movie like this? Doesn't seem like the people who made it think so. More people die, that's for sure, and do it dramatically, flying around and sending blood spurting all over the cartoonishly-coloured desert shots. I don't have anything against violence, in films. Really, I don't. It's just that generally I like some other things, mixed in with it. And by that, I don't mean those sparkly bikini-clad dancing girls that were intercut, a lot, with the first bullets-and-blood-and-rhinestones killing spree. My other complaint about the gratuitous violence is that not enough of it was directed at David Arquette. Not meaning to sound evil, but he really puts the "Die! NOW!" into "irritating". Back to the movie. In between the fast-forwarded shots of the desert and the weird techno music (well, kind of underneath the techno music if I'm to be truthful), there's some sort of vague storyline with Courteney Cox as a slutty single mother who alternates between sleeping with Kurt Russell's character whose name I forgot, and running off with all the money and without her son. The son, who is one of those smart-alecky wise-beyond-their-years kids that these kind of movies are liberally sprinkled with, is abandoned with Kurt Russell. (Insert your own "A fate worse than death!" type comment.) Along its way, "3000 Miles To Graceland" gets hit by every clichéd plot anvil you could think of. There's the one about "the black guy dies first". And the one about "yes, the main character does kill twenty-six people per day on average, but he really does have a heart of gold and family values underneath it all". And the one about... ah, frig it. It's not worth your time or effort. Sorry, "Graceland". Elvis is dead.
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Summary: Why MTV ruined the movies
Review: Movie...this isn't a movie...it's a high octane, over the top, train wreck. It's like a mirage in the Nevada desert, all glimmery and full of hope but ultimately non-existent. The plot is transparent. Everything in this movie is about the shot, the effect, the gag...all without any reasoning. It's total lack of self-control makes this the perfect wet dream for a 12 year old boy. It's the Britney Spears of movies.
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Summary: The Good, The Bad & The Pretentious
Review: This is a movie that wastes talent like spent rounds. You can tell this is an MTV director on crossover. They reveal themselves in their fervor to generate a style with almost no concept of how to run the plot threads of a feature length narrative. The sad part is that the "style" that is being generated is trite and visually mundane. Time compression photography as a transition between scenes is a look that is as old as time. The other slick camera moves just cry out "poor man's Matrix." What's worse is that there are some decent actors in here in roles that they all should have been embarrassed to take. Christian Slater gets my vote for the most underused of the lot. Kevin Costner's lead is the Postman without a heart. Thank god more of the actors didn't try to step out of type, or this turkey would have sprouted megafeathers.
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Summary: Fun action!
Review: Yes, it's not Oceans Eleven or something that requires elaborate thinking. This is an action movie made for pure entertainment reasons. Coster and Russell are probably not at their best though this movie isn't pretty. It's a rough shoot-em-up robbery composed by a tough thiefs who share very little honor. I enjoyed the action. This movie is perfect for someone looking to be entertained by a great action movie with plenty of guns, blood and tough-guy moments. The music in the movie is great because it captures the excitement and energy in it.
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Summary: Sincerely: I can't believe they produced this thing..
Review: ... I've heard he was an ex-music video director, don't know for sure. The damage he made to the movie industry and to Costner and Russell's careers is unimaginable. This movie is putrid, mean, bad, disconnected, moralless, cheap and false. Costner as the bad guy is a joke. Cox is a "great and sensitive" mother who taught his son how to commit robbery. All characters are disgusting, you only which they all die as soon as the movie starts. The "Elvis-disguise-robbery" premise is a plot intended to swindle audiences in the trailers, because it is gone right in the beginning of the movie. Alright, you can say sometimes it is good to watch a nasty movie. I disagree. I sometimes like trash movies, but the ones who are not completely stupid and with bad intentions like this one. SKIP IT!
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Summary: The art of film making at the services of EVIL..!!
Review: I'm just joking, of course. What I mean is that this picture puts together all the possible elements that can doom a production. Seldom have I witnessed this. It has bad direction (debut for a video guy), bad casting (not bad actors), bad screenplay, bad edition, bad sountrack (well, by soundtrack I mean the "thing" they tried to insert as a soundtrack...), needless violence, moral corruption (after robbing and cheating and killing, Russell's character and Cox's character go sailing in love, money in their pockets, happily in the best of moods). It's made to shock. It's like a B-grade Natural Born Killers. It goes absolutely nowhere, it has no cohesion, it's a mess of a movie with a big budget. A bom, if ever there was one.'Yes, I've watched it. Yes', I've lost two hours of my life, but that taught me a lesson: never watch a Kevin Costner movie again. After 13 DAYS, I tought he was back in the right track. But, after this one, I saw this guy has no charisma at all, he just goes for the money.
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Summary: Ugly, just ugly
Review: Unbeliavable some good reviews this movie got.... I've watched dozens of brainless action movies that did not necessarily were so violent, so utterly bad, and with tons of bad taste like this one here, including a child cheating at will. I've watched dozens of brainless action movies that did have better casting than KEvin Costner as a cold blooded killer dressed like Elvis I've watched dozens of brainless action movies that did not have an annoying smart child who by the way is a thief. And none of them were directed by this new guy Lichtenstein, coming straight from shooting bad MTV music videos. It's a shame Russel is in it. As for COurtney Cox, well, I think she wants desperately to begin a movie career and leave FRIENDS behind, so she needs to accept any role people offer her (SCREAMS and now this turkey here). How such a budget is wasted in something so atrocious is beyond my grasp. As for Costner, add this to the list of pretentious, bad conducted, plotless movies he's been doing in recent years.
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Summary: 3000 miles to Nowhere!!
Review: Uau...!! Costner, please learn how to be in good movies as you once did in the past, or retire definitely. 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND is so lame and mean that I'm out of words. It's violent just for the sake of being violent. It's cold, soulless, utterly boring and vile. It's a sutyd in violence with no purpose at all, I can not believe Kurt Russell, one of my favorite movie actors, accepted to be part of this mess, the debut of a music video director in the big screen. No wonder it bombed... The point here is that the maker sof this filme clearly tried to copy some kind of Tarantino's style, but without any real passion or heart into doing it. It's absurd. Let's check some of them. And to think that Costner is a Oscar winner with Dance With Wolves... * The main female girl (Courtney Cox Arquette, a character for whom we're supposed to care for), makes love with strangers and customers at day in front of her young child, in hner own house! * as for the violence sequences, two of them are so low and cheap I could not believe: the cold-blooded killing of one state trooper at the road and Costner's character beating a very old man to death in an old trailer!!!! Both of them were totally unecessary, since the audience already knew, by means of earlier sequences, how bad Costner's character was!! * And, the holes in the plot. THere is a girl in a small town gas station that feels great pleasure when Costner's character blows the place off. So, she takes a ride in his car. Then, the girl simply disappears from the movie. No explanations. I think this "Movie" was just a sad excuse for everybody involved exercise their "dark" sides and deliver a gore party. But, as there was famous actors participating, they had to "disguise" it, so the Elvis mention and characterization. Well, what a movie....
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