The details of his character are both preposterous and beside the point, as “Drive Angry,” directed by Patrick Lussier (“My Bloody Valentine 3D,” “Dracula 2000”), from a script he wrote with Todd Farmer, lets Mr. In this movie, he plays a grandfather from hell (I mean that literally, though to say more might count as a spoiler) with lank blond hair, a haunted demeanor and the poetical name of John Milton, a sop to the English literature grad students who are sure to flock to this movie. Cage’s acting style - if that is still the right term - seems these days to require not an extra dimension, but rather an entire parallel universe. None of that really has anything to do with “Drive Angry,” which at least in its 3-D version makes a loud, incoherent but oddly compelling case for the enhancing effects of stereoscopic projection on certain treasured objects of the cinematic gaze, like classic Detroit muscle cars, women’s breasts and Nicolas Cage. ![]() ![]() The most persuasive among them - Roger Ebert, for example - offer learned arguments grounded in science and aesthetics. There are those who insist that no great work of cinematic art will ever be presented in 3-D.
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