Driving by his deep will of revenge for the murder of his daughter and the kidnapping of his granddaughter, a dead father has escaped from hell, in order to find those who kill his daughter, the thing that makes him struggle against chasing them and killing them brutally.
It's actually refreshing that Lussier and Farmer don't belabor the film's internal mythology of satanic cults, hell and the devil's administrative assistants.
Drive Angry is very obviously Nicolas Cage embracing his own ridiculousness, or - in language invented by Bad Lieutenant director Werner Herzog - "releasing the pigs".
There's a thin line between clever and stupid. NIc Cage walks it.
Boxoffice Magazine
February 26, 2011
Cage passes the torch to the next generation of scene-chewing actors as he's graciously out-Caged by both Burke and shark-eyed William Fichtner as The Accountant
Tribune News Service
January 16, 2013
A little respect, please, for His Satanic Majesty, Nicolas Cage. Nobody else could have made this work, or would have wanted to.
Performances, especially from William Fichtner and Amber Heard, are great and the 3D is pretty solid, but that's about all I can say for Drive Angry 3D in terms of positive aspects of the film.
