3000 Miles to Graceland

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Summary: Rent something else
Review: If you watch the DVD version, you'll get good quality viewing of a really bad movie. I was embarrassed for everybody involved, but I suppose they all got paid anyway.

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Summary: Watch with Low Expectations
Review: Wow, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by '3000 miles to graceland'. Sure, it can be violent at times but the action scenes are very cool and the plot is filled with twists and turns.
Reading all these negative reviews, I almost didnt watch it. Goes to show you have to make up your own mind on these things.

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Summary: Definately one of the worst action movies I've ever seen
Review: I must admit halfway through watching this movie I thought it was OKAY. But then it turned just plain stupid. The acting was bad, and I never cared for any of the characters who had a major role in the film. The little kid just got annoying and same with his Mom. The movie tried to be funny sometimes, but it really wasn't. The dark humor did not have me laughing. For dark humor and action I'd suggest Payback. Not this ...Most of the interesting action scenes, in fact the best of the movie is the whole time they where in the casino. That suggests why the previews show mostly clips from the casino scenes. Okay, so this movie does have maybe 1 or 2 explosion scenes, but... By the time they showed any action at the end of the movie I didn't even care anymore and was ready to walk away. The DVD doesn't make up for anything in this movie. It's a weak DVD with it's only extra features being a theatrical trailer and a list of the cast. With the exception of the Filter song in the beginning, the music to this movie got on my nerves. For a superior Kurt Russell movie rent Breakdown. For an action movie with bad acting, just rent Eraser. Eraser was corny but at least it was enjoyable. Well... you've heard my warning... That's my 2 cents.

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Summary: What a fantastic actiozzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!
Review: Talk about bad. This movie flat out sucked. Kurt Russell as a good guy lead, I dont mind. But an over the top Kevin Costner as the bad guy just makes for bad movie watching. The plot is simple with some twists, but the movement of the movie is too slow and watching Kevin Costner in his god like elvis frame of mind was just irritating. Dont waste your time or money on this garbage.

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Summary: Not what I expected - but really good anyway.
Review: I somehow got the impression before seeing it that this was a comical robbery-gone-wrong movie with extreme costumes and a lot of Elvis jokes. Well - not quite. This is an out-and-out action flick with a decent plot and characters that are way more than the one-dimensional types so often seen in the action genre. Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner played varying degrees of bad guys with honor, and Courtney Cox was wonderful as a trashy trailer princess, though the boy who played her son practically stole the show. Yes, it's a very violent movie. I'm generally not a big action fan (because most action movies fail to bother much with plot), but I liked this one a lot.

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Summary: A Movie for ALL Weapon Lovers
Review: I figured, from the previews that this movie would be stupid, a friend of mine saw it, AWESOME he claimed. I saw this movie, and I just loved it, if you love weapons of all kinds, M16's, M4A1's, Colt .45's, P90's, Spas 12's etc. Then this movie is for you. I loved the last scene where Hamilton, with double P90's has himself harnessed to this rope thing and just goes down it spinning and taking out a lot of the SWAT team. It is a great movie, Kevin Costner and Kurt Russel play a good duo.

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Summary: Watch a REAL John Woo film instead
Review: Heck, "Black Arrow" looks like "Hard Boiled" when compared to this film. How can you tell right off the bat that a movie is bad? 1st clue - Kurt Russell is in it. Even Goldie Hawn would'nt sit through this awful movie. 2nd clue - Kevin "Postman" Costner is in it. That is a warning sign that should NEVER be ignored. 3rd sign - it was directed by a bad music video director. There are so many good action flicks out, why subject yourself to this homage to "Harley Daividson and The Marlboro Man"? Do your sanity a favor and take a pass on this one!

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Summary: What a great lesson: CRIME IS KING- yeah right.
Review: 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND (2001, R= Strong Violence, Strong Profanity, and Sexual Content, including Sexual Dialogue) The Cast: KEVIN COSTNER, KURT RUSSELL, COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE, CHRISTIAN SLATER, JON LOVITZ and DAVID ARQUETTE. The Genre: ACTION/CRIME The Plot: Five thieves pull off the ultimate heist at a casino in Las Vegas dressing up as Elvis impersonators, but soon realize that their gang leader (Costner) is trying to keep all the money himself, leaving one man (Russell) to stop him. What Works: Action to the extreme, which could never be re-created any better- unless they added more to the film. And Kevin Costner's perfect role as the ultimate villain. What Doesn't: This film has nothing much to do with Elvis other than the fact that they dress up as Elvis impersonators to snatch some cash, and that Costner gets p/o'ed when someone says "The King is Dead." The sexual content was way too out of line and has nothing to do with the film's potential- it only departs from it. Also, the in-between sequences when the action is over- it really just drags out the film. If you take the Vegas shootout, the action-packed end, and the battling scorpions in the beginning- then that is really all the action you get. There isn't enough momentum to keep the film going smoothly. Reality Check: To add to its major cliches- the media is trying to get a very "Bad" message to the audience, especially to young kids: CRIME IS KING. The Catch: You will be entertained with action, but the in-between stuff is just nothing worth the hour and twenty five minutes. OVERALL: "This high-octane action films busts metal bars in half with its extreme action and ultimate villain, but fails in the areas of being entertaining the whole way through and giving the audience a positive message. This film goes to show what MTV music video directors will come up with."

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Summary: Hunka Hunka Burnin' Doody
Review: I imagine Elvis Presley alive somewhere in North Dakota, perhaps going in disguise to the video store, purchasing Frito's and a Surge Cola and renting this movie. He chuckles to himself and takes delight in seeing Kevin Coster appear in more putrid roles than Colonel Parker ever made him do. The movie hints that Costner was Presley's illlegitimate son, who knows, who cares. Ensemble casts are a great indication of a bad movie and this turkey delivers on all levels. All the characters (with the exception of Kurt Russell) are totally un-likeable, the plot is as thin and weak as a balsa wood airplane, and the characters that may have provided some comic relief were all killed off at the beginning of the movie. I see Elvis returning this DVD to the store 5 minutes before closing time, glad he is in disguise so that nobody will know that he rented this train-wreck of a movie.

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Summary: Big Names ... Big Bust ...
Review: I had the misfortune of seeing this movie in the theatre. I was not sure when, but I would guess shortly into the movie (like 15 minutes) I was ready to leave. There is a lot of violence and shooting, but even that is not well done. It was one of the worst movies I have seen. The action scenes / violent scenes seemed to be not only a bit extreme, and I don't mean that it was too intense as much as out of place and overkill, but the plot was pretty poor as well. It just seemed that they were throwing a bunch of special effects (shootouts and explosions) and some big name actors /actresses at the movie and figuring that would be enough to carry the movie. It didn't work ... add this one to another Kevin Costner flop. Right up there with Waterworld!!