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Summary: It could have been so beautiful..it could have been so right
Review: I like Kevin Costner. I'm wild about Christian Slater. I LOVE Kurt Russel. I would say that if any one of them chose me to carry their love child, I wouldn't say no. This movie has all three, and some pretty fine performances [at times.] You also see a Courtney Cox that is the evil, poor-white-trash cousin of her "Friends" counterpart, which she does very well. The kid that plays her son also gives a believable performance. You have bank robbers. YOu have Elvis impersonators. In Las Vegas and beyond. Heck, even Ice T has a small part it this one. So why did this movie fall short of what could have potentially been really cool? It could have been the abrupt musical changes, and choice of canned music rather than creating anything new specifically for this movie. It could have been unbelievable dialog [which most of these guys deliver without looking too embarassed]. It could have been lack of explanation, and no innuendo in the dialog to make for the fact that we don't know WHY some of the characters are: angry, sad, in jail, out of jail, still alive, stupid enough to get killed. I really REALLY wanted to like this movie, but even seeing Kurt dressed and impersonating Elvis [and he does this WELL ladies and gentlemen] it didn't make up for some disjointed scenes, poor editing, and a director who clearly didn't take advantage of the potentially dynamite cast he had. I really hate it when that happens.
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Summary: Bizarre but cool.
Review: OK, this movie is not for everybody, but it's not as bad as some would have you believe. If anything, this film suffers from terrible casting but it still manages to deliver an entertaining diversion. By now, Kurt Russell is very comfortable with his Elvis alter-ego. And if you liked the cold- blooded mercenary that Kevin Costner evolved from "Bodyguard-Perfect World" you will absolutely love this flick. But if you prefer the introspection of his Message in a Bottle character then stay AWAY. Personally, I think he's found his niche. Courtney Cox is hotter'n a Mississippi trailer fire. The rest of the characters are irrelevant. with the exception of the gas station chick...sort of a Rollergirl clone. And I think we've pretty much seen the last of Christian Slater until he gets some hair plugs and rediscovers the presence he carried in True Romance. Great soundtrack, well worth a look. 4 Caddies.
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Summary: ANOTHER ONE OF KURT RUSSELL'S BEST
Review: A GANG OF CRIMINALS, [LEAD BY KURT RUSSELL AND KEVIN COSTNER] DRESS UP AS ELVIS TO ROB A CASINO. BUT SHORTLY THEREAFTER, ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE GROUP AND KILLS ALMOST EVERYONE OF HIS PARTNERS. NOW, THE 2 REMAINING CRIMINALS BATTLE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. I JUST DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE COULD HATE THIS MOVIE. IT'S ACTION-PACKED, IT'S FUNNY, AND IT EVEN HAS A STAR STUDDED CAST. KURT RUSSELL WAS COOL, BUT KEVIN COSTNER JUST STOLE THE SHOW IN THIS MOVIE. THE MOVIE FEATURES APPEARANCES FROM; CHRISTIAN SLATER, DAVID ARQUETTE, COURTENEY COX, JON LOVITZ, ICE-T, AND MORE.
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Summary: A bitter, nasty, dirty film that has little redeeming value
Review: 3000 Miles to Graceland was advertised as a very different movie. I have to say, if I could just watch movies made by the guys who put together previews, I'd be a lot happier. The preview emphasized the whole Elvis angle. To wit: a bunch of crooks decide to rob a Vega casino dressed as Elvises (Elvi?). Kevin Costner plays Thomas Murphy, the bastard child of Elvis. Actually, there's possibly two bastard children of Elvis in this movie. Ya see, there were 35 claimants stating that Elvis was their pop, but 33 of those DNA tests proved false. So who is the other Elvis-spawn? We're never told. Anyway, that's all besides the point. That whole Elvis thing? That's not what the movie's about. In fact, at first I thought the movie was about giant robot mecha. It starts with two computer generated robot-like scorpions battling each other to the death. Only they have big, grinning maws for faces. The black scorpion fights the silver scorpion. One of them is probably supposed to be the good guy. It doesn't matter, the movie seems to say, because they're both mean scorpions and you shouldn't be rooting for either one. The first half hour of the movie is the aforementioned heist of the casino by the Elvis gang. The potential for entertainment is ruined by weird, stuttery camera shots and a total lack of rhythm. Interspersed between images of Elvis-impersonators firing machineguns are Broadway shows of elvis. But none of it gels quite right. When we're not seeing Elvis with a gun, which apparently the director thinks is absolutely hysterical since he shows these shots over and over, we're seeing women do naughty sexual acts. Courtney Cox, in the first role as a sexual plaything that I can recall, acts as...well, a sexual plaything (unless you count Ace Ventura too). She also has a thieving little son named Jesse James. He likes to pick pockets and pretend he's a cowboy. There's a lot of Courtney moving up and down in the vicinity of a bed. If you like Ms. Cox, then this is as good as the movie gets. There's definitely a misogynistic streak running through the film. It's most obvious when a random redhead shows up for no other reason than to provide fellatio for the bad guy - that's Murphy. I'm no fan of Kevin Costner, but he does play a mad-dog-mean bad guy. The protagonist, if you can call him that, is Kurt Russell as Michael Zane. Russel kicks ass, even in this role. But he can't save this movie. In some twisted, good-vs-evil battle, the two characters go head to head again and again in car crashes, gunfights, and battles of wit. Okay, battles of potty-mouthed swearing. I expected this movie to be witty, funny, cool in a fashion very similar to Ocean's Eleven. But this movie is like the anti-Ocean's Eleven. It sucks the cool out of other movies playing nearby. It features lots of foul language, the complete desecration of all things Elvis, Courtney Cox's ass, Christian Slater AND David Arquette, child abuse, and women as sex toys. It's a bitter, nasty, dirty film that has little redeeming value.
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Summary: What movies are all about
Review: I fail to see the problem that people have with "3000 Miles to Graceland", this really was a very good movie. I try to not pay attention to reviews - and with good reason. Every review I read about this movie before I watched it was negative. I went ahead and watched it anyway because I am a huge Kurt Russell fan, and I was not dissapointed. I actually found it better than I thought I would considering that I really don't care for Kevin Costner. It's not meant to be a comedy or a suspense thriller, it's meant to be entertaining, and with that in mind - it delivers! Kurt is sexy, Courtney pulls off the sexy-trashy desperate hotty that she goes for, and Kevin actually made me like him for a change. I was a little bit dissapointed when Christian Slayter left the show so quick, and when you stop to think about it, the only true mis-casting was David Arquette. David just didn't seem to pull off the fact that he would be a bank robber, much less an Elvis impersonator. All in all, this is one of my favorite movies and given the fact that I have a very extensive movie collection and have hardly ever recommended a movie to someone with dissapointments, I can say that this is definately worth watching. Heck, I even bought the DVD so that I can watch it whenever I want. And I have wanted to quite a few times in the past and no doubt will in the future as well!
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Summary: Don't step on his Blue Suede Shoes
Review: Let's break this down and serve it up faster and hotter than one of those fried banana-and-peanut-butter sandwiches The King himself loved so much: "3000 Miles to Graceland" is one of the fastest, tightest, hottest, gun-slingingest, ammo-pumpingest, dead sexy, little bloodbaths I've ever had the good fortune to come across. One blue suede shoe over two hours long, director Demian Lichtenstein has created a white-hot little shot of pure cinematic adrenaline, cooked up with some of the tightest editing I've ever seen, brutal gun battles in which every bullet-riddled sequence keeps trying to up the ante on its predecessor, a Las Vegas casino (the Riviera) full of Elvis impersonators of every size, shape and sort, sexy Vegas showgirls with abs of steel, toe-tapping techno and rockabilly tunes to accompany the grand carnage, more double-crosses and twists than a West Virginia logging road, and high-voltage double barrelled starpower featuring Kevin Costner in his best role ever (as a villain!), Kurt Russell, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, and David Arquette. Besides, how can you fault a movie that takes the average action film's gunfight quotient, triples it, and delivers the gory goods in spades---*and* begins and ends with a scorpion deathmatch *and* a bloodbath? Answer: You can't. The plot is action-movie simplicity itself: Russell plays drifter and con-man Michael Zane, who hooks up with fellow footpad Thomas Murphy (played to the rhinestone-plated hilt by Kevin Costner) and two other villains (Christian Slater and Bokeem Woodbine) to pull off a 3.2 million dollar heist at the Las Vegas Riviera casino during the International Elvis Impersonator Night. Director Lichtenstein is my kind of director, too: he doesn't waste time with lots of exposition, but digs right into the main attraction and shoots our jumpsuit-costumed perfectly-coiffed Memphis drawling robbers into the casino, and "3000 Miles" starts out with one of the slickest, lead-pumpingest gunfights this side of Blue Hawaii, to say nothing of the surreal sequence with the helicopter set to the toe-tapping goodness of Elvis's "Such a Night". Faster than you can fry up a Montecristo sandwich the casino gets robbed, crosses get doubled, conspirators get buried in shallow graves, Russell falls in with the sultry Cox and her son, the Feds get called in, and nothing but trouble looms for everyone involved. The editing here is tight, the gun-battles intense, the Elvis riffs yummy, the dancing girls delicious, and the climactic stand-off is roaring good fun, pitting Kevin Costner's drawling and well-armed lunatic against a small army of SWAT police. Lichtenstein delivers the goods with tight editing and breathless action, making the finished product look like it cost three times as much as it did. The acting here is also all first rate, from Cox and Costner (who should play more villains), to Russell (who exudes pure unadulterated cool), to Slater, Woodbine, and a small squad of veteran character actors---including Jon Lovitz as a money launderer, Howie Long in yet *another* role as a hip thug, Ice-T as the hitman's hitman, and even Lorraine Cote, who has made a career as an old lady affixed to a Las Vegas one-armed bandit. If you're looking for deep and introspective, look elsewhere---but if you're looking for a rip-roaring, take-no-prisoners little hound dog of a movie that the King himself would have enjoyed, "3000 Miles to Graceland" is three thousand miles of pure delight.
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Summary: 3000 Miles to a Being a Good Movie!!
Review: 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND has a great premise, but bad execution. It has a great cast, but terrible characters. One would think Costner and Russell would be an interesting pair-up. However, there is no chemistry between the two actors. What could have been a good movie turns into a psycho movie vehicle for Kevin Costner. Again, he adds another movie flop under his resume. If all involved had done this right, the film could have been another OCEAN'S 11. Four robbers dressed as Elvis impersonators, headed for Las Vegas for the Elvis Impersonator convention, to rob a casino is a great idea. However, the four never get to perform and the viewers are stuck with another slow motion, shoot'em up, casino heist, that isn't fun to watch and isn't very original. Christian Slater is wasted, as he is killed early on in the movie, while Kevin Costner's psycho, bad boy Elvis persona is not likable or sympathetic. Named actors in minor roles are there only to get killed, the love story between Courntey Cox' character and Kurt Russell's character isn't interesting (except when he bangs her twice in the movie) and once again, for the millionth time, the moviegoers are given a child character who is a smart-..., kleptomaniac thief. One would hope that the Kurt Russell character would beat the [stuffing] out of or even kill this kid because it was the most annoying part of the movie. The tone is all too serious even if some of the banter is comical (it's still mean spirited). The whole Elvis schtick is wasted except at the end when Kurt Russell performs a lipsynch routine of Elvis' great song "Such a Night" during the final credits. However, by this time, it's too late to save the movie. The director should make a sequel to this movie, do it right, and this time use BEATLE Impersonators and call it 6000 MILES TO LIVERPOOL!!
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Summary: 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND
Review: This off beat very violent action film is not the humungous crap every one makes it out to be. Kevin Costner is superb as a Elvis obsessed pyscho. This films deserves a second look!
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Summary: Robo-Scorpion Smackdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Every once in a while a movie scence comes along that is so epic in proportaion of greatness that it changes the way we view cinema for all time. All of this and more can be said of the opening sequence of this movie. Imagine this. The desert, outside Las Vegas. Suddenly the ground trembles. Its time for a clash of the titans. Two roboscorpions appear over the horrizon with one purpouse in mind-DESTROY EACH OTHER! What happens next is one of the great movie scenes of all time. Two collosual, grinnin scorpions batlle in battle in which there can be no winner. WHO WILL WIN?!?!?!
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Summary: "Either quit smoking or get a new lighter."
Review: This was still a good movie, but it could have been so much more, if they'd maybe toned the violence (which wasn't that bad), and given Christin Slater some actual lines to say, instead of having him in the background until his final moments. Same goes for David Arquette. The director managed to rake in the big name stars to attract people to come and see the movie. Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz (seriously underused), and many more, which people may recognise. Why was I attracted to watching this movie? It comes across as being a movie about Elvis impersonators who rob a casino, and has some great stars in it. Not only do the four Elvis impersonators never perform together (now wouldn't THAT have been a sight), but Kevin Costner is quite dreadful. And I normally like him too! It's safe to say that I liked him in The Bodyguard and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (apart from the hair!), but I get put off by the constant chain smoking! I just don't like guys (or girls, ruining their good looks) who smoke. It's a complete & utter turn off. I also like Mel Gibson - apparently I'll hate him if I ever see Payback. Courtney Cox does little more than flaunt her body and 'get it on' with Kurt Russell. And speak with what I think was supposed to be a bad Southern accent. Apparently there could have been another version of this. Kurt Russell had a version, which was more comedy orientated, and focused more on his relationship with Courtney Cox. Kevin Costner's version was more action orientated. And guess which one was put out to the viewing public? Kevin Costner's version. The guy has a serious of flops under his belt, yet keeps churning them out. And we're supposed to trust this guy when he brings out a film? Whatever. The connection between Elvis 'The King' Presley, and Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner pitiful attempts as Elvis impersonators, was never quite explained, unless you've got a keen eye for detail, and can put two and two together and get the right answer. I won't give it away either, but why are they apparently so desperate to avenge him?! That whole part was obviously cut or something. Either that or I just didn't get it. If you want to see the best bit, watch over the credits. Kurt Russell lip syncs (albeit badly) to an Elvis song, which I'd never heard of, although it was "Such a Night". The rest of the characters dance around (Courtney), or point their guns. There's also an outtake, which is funny! And don't ask me what the meaning of the title is. I've been told, but I don't think it made any sense to me at the time - and that's without drink!
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