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Summary: An Excellent film with Kevin Costner in it? yes....
Review: I don't mean to badmouth Costner, but he has had a bad run of appearing in less than great films. Plus, he can sometimes turn in some pretty poor excuses for acting. Well, He is amazing as the real bad guy in this film! I was so shocked and amazed at his performance. This is undoubtedly the best role to date for him. He is very evil in his role of Thomas Murphy, killer, robber, and he thinks Elvis is his father. Kurt Russell does a sort of reprise of his Elvis performance. I always thought that the Elvis movie he did was the best one, and he was the best Elvis.(next to the real KING). The movie is full of fast-paced action and comedy, and there is also a love story thrown in. 5 criminals, a few fresh out of prison, decide to rob a casino because no one else robs casinos - It's original - The hotel they decide to rob happens to be in the midst of the INTERNATIONAL ELVIS CONVENTION. They all don their Elvis attire. Christian Slater and David Arquette are also part of the crew. They hit the casino up for over $3 million. The money seems to switch hands alot in the film after they all split up and go their own way. Courtney Cox plays the love interest for Kurt Russell. I am not a big fan of hers, but she is actually very good as the sleazy/waitressy type who is a single mother raising a budding Criminal. I was really entertained by this film. I have to agree with the other person here who reviewed the movie! So, in closing, for those contemplating whether or not to spend money on this film - I would say it is most definitely worth the price you pay. If you are in the mood for a good action/comedy caper, it is an excellent choice.
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Summary: A never-ending, bad music video
Review: This film is so bad, it can't even live down to its apparent ambition of being the worst movie ever made. There are worse, but not many. For those who never got the Elvis craze, this film will make no sense at all. For Elivs fans, this film will make no sense at all either. I have no idea why the whole Elvis theme was even in the movie. In fact, I have no idea why the movie itself was made.There are a lot of recognizable and talented actors in the story, but their performances are pathetically weak, and their characters are all despicable. The plot is ridiculous: a gang of robbers dressing up in Elvis costumes to rob money from a Las Vegas casino. The rest of the movie is nothing but blood and guns, as they all turn against each other. You end up wishing all the characters would just kill each other off at the first opportunity to get it over with, but it drags on forever before they finally do. The whole movie is filmed with the attention span of a never-ending music video, which gets really annoying after the first 30 seconds. Jumpy edits throughout, loud music that has nothing to do with Elvis or anything else, you get the picture: don't see the picture.
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Summary: Costner IS the King (well, only his son)
Review: I know that some people will say that this is a rip off of Ocean's Eleven, or Reservoir Dogs, or whatever pseudoflick they've watched lately, and there are some things alike, but this movie IS certainly cool entertainment at its best. Costner plays a psycho (who says he is Elvis's love son), and Russell a misfit, in the wrong place at the wrong time, who try to pull a heist, but it goes awry. People have said that it is too violent, that the shootings look made up, but, hey, that's the point: it looks crazy because it is supposed to be crazy; Courtney Cox leaves her child with Kurt because she was nuts, they fall in love because this IS a movie, it isn't supposed to be a real life story. Of course, everybody is entitled to have an opinion, but before you express yours: WATCH this film. Even if I'm not the biggest Kevin Costner fan, I mus admit that he is the best part and the best actor here. This movie IS the coolest new release
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Summary: Great story: Costner at his best -really!!
Review: I had the good luck of being invited to a preview of 3KMTG (while on a trip), and what some people had said would be another Tarantino-like movie (nihilistic movie-making full of childish dialogues that mean nothing and don't even entertain) turned out to be a very good and entertaining film. By now everybody knows the story: a bunch of goons (commanded by Costner) go to Las Vegas to rob a casino, which happens to go so bad that soon after the shooting and death of security guards and some pretty cool action sequences, all of them turn against each other. Kevin Costner (grrreat as a cold-blooded, mean badass) shows that despite the ill fashion of hating him (his only sin has been to overestimate the intelligence and sensibility of moviegoers) can portray other characters as well -or even better- than the next door middle-age man he's done a couple of times before. This IS great fun, open your minds, enjoy this movie for what it is: cool, hip road noir.
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Summary: had to huff gas to get through this one
Review: Maybe someday when I'm running out of room on my amazon site and need more space, I'll take this review off to make room for my review on how much I like pears--yeah, I'm talking about the fruit. 3000 miles was the most craptacularly written movie since Gigli, which came after it, yeah, it's that bad- it's even worse than a movie that hadn't been created yet. Can you grasp that? Do you realize what a metaphysical can of worms that is? The movie opens with Kurt Russell going to a bar in the desert and meeting Courteny Cox, banging her a couple times, then dressing up like Elvis with Kevin Cosner and robbing a casino. This sounds funny right? Yeah, it quite possible could've been, but it kind of turned out to be the opposite, horrible. Some parts are entertaining, like where a kid in the movie goes to the bathroom and the guy in the stall next to him farts. If the best part though is a guy farting, you need to ask yourself this question: Would I be spending my time more wisely learning all the lyrics to theme song for Captain Planet, the cartoon?
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Summary: A one of a kind movie
Review: In what may be the darkest comedy since "Very Bad Things", "3000 Miles to Graceland" is loud, nasty, violent, and funny as hell. Kurt Russell is getting too old to play the action hero, so its a twist of fate for him playing an Elvis impersonating antihero. The storyline is simple at first, Kurt Russell plays an Elvis lover who just got out of jail, has a fling with a surprisingly good Courtney Cox, then joins his old buddy fellow Elvis impersonator Kevin Costner and his partners Christian Slater and David Arquette. The plan is to go into a casino, rob it, and get out. But some things go wrong, and double crosses are abound. This may well be Kevin Costner's best performance ever as the maniacal, but hilarious, Murphy. A no holds barred dark action comedy that only those with a twisted sense of humor can truly appreciate, "3000 Miles to Graceland" is an underrated movie no one should miss.
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Summary: Good performances, poor direction
Review: The first 1/3 of this movie was really good. Some great action scenes, great chemistry between all involved..... and then all of a sudden, most of the cast is killed off and what we are left with is; Kurt Russell and a child actor who really never work, a relationship with Coutney Cox that was never believable, hot potatoe with a bag of money, and Kevin Costner in a Wombat suit. How is that for a mental image?
This could have been a great movie if they would have done the following; take more time with the build up to the actual "heist". Since that was the highlight, to have it happen within the first 20 mintues leaves the rest of the movie gasping for air. By doing this it would have given more screen time to "the crew of Elvis's" plus given the audience more of a shock when Costner goes renegade.
All the pieces were in place for this movie, it could have been great but as it stands, it's just another in a long line of almosts.
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Summary: THE KING HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Review: Using its unique ploy of having a casino heist during an International Elvis Impersonation event, 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND explodes on its merry way, like a discarded music video, blatantly violent, stiffly performed, and comically trying to be a dramedy. However, it IS an entertaining way to spend a couple hours.
Kurt Russell is the hero/bad guy who takes up with the treacherous Courteney Cox and her potentially criminal son, well played by David Kaye. The reason: partner Kevin Costner has killed most of his cohorts because he wants all the money, but Russell is wearing a bulletproof vest, so thus begins the chase and revenge movie. Don't expect to see much of Christian Slater, David Arquette, Howie Long or Ice-T. They aren't in the movie much at all. Ditto Bokeem Woodbine and Jon Lovitz. Also showing up are Kevin Pollak, Thomas Haden Church and a hilarious Paul Anka. The movie is pretty violent and sadistic at times. It also strangely opts to use some comic scenes at the end credits to kind of say, "Hey, this was only a movie, and weren't the stars having fun?"
Russell tries hard, but his character isn't all that likeable either. Although refreshing to see Costner trying to widen his scope of characters, his performance is a little too hammy. Ditto Cox, who tries so hard to be likeable, but she's pretty deceptive too.
All in all, though, it's an energetic if flawed movie.
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Summary: Costner shlumps this one
Review: Costner is way over the top and his character is way annoying and I didnt like that about this movie. Kurt Russell's second Elvis film next to Elvis the TV movie which he played Elvis and that was better then this one. You also got some dumb supporters like Jon Lovitz, Ice-T, Dave Arquette, Bookem Woodbine and Christian Slater for god sakes(though I liked when Costner shot him dead, made him shut the hell up)Courtney Cox's character is like sexually active in this one
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