I honestly don’t understand hollywood at times, especially when developing ideas for movie concepts. All the studios in hollywood just completely baffle me, but I’ll just focus my efforts on one studio in particular, Warner Bros. Even since the studio released The Matrix and a few solid titles, virtually nothing of greatness has been produced in over two and a half years time. Well maybe I’m the only one that sees this trend and I probably would think that Warner Bros might also be concerned if it wasn’t for there release of the horribly atrocious display of 3000 Miles of Graceland.
For the life of me I don’t even know what target audience Warner was aiming for except for the mindless general mass audiences that seems to dictate what’s entertaining even if they have to idea what is. This is a complete disgrace to any one person that helped bring this monstrosity to life because nothing at any level and every thing is so excessive your mind goes numb after the first 5 minutes.
PLOT
Finding a method to this madness is like trying to figure out why this was made at all. Can they not see this when they are making these productions, or do they just simply ignoring it and just waste money making it. The whole story and purpose centers around one word, excessiveness. Mind numbing, meaningless, excessive displays that don’t move the story along or anything else. The story can be summed up very simply, group of criminals dress up as Elvis impersonators on a Elvis night to blend in while they are robbing a casino. That’s it, there’s no point in watching any longer because this happens within the first 20 minutes and this is the whole purpose of the movie.
CHARACTERS
You may look towards this element to find some kind of merit but I’m laughing to hard to attempt trying to find it, but there is none You may expect that some nameless teenagers, such as way of the gun to fill the role but no the pull out all the stops and bring out Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell for the main roles. Imagining and seeing both of these actors in villain roles is such a pathetic sight that it’s too painful to watch. I guess they believed that if he grew ridiculously long sideburns and always sucking down a cancer stick every second he was on the screen that would make him the ultimate villain. Basically the last hour displays Costner and Russell fighting over the money which getting ridiculous and boring after a while.
Russell is shown as a criminal with more of a conscience while Costner is more of the cold-blooded, heartless chain smoking killing machine. In they throw Courtney Cox as a single mother slut and provides the love interest and eye candy for Russell. Toward the end of the movie the son of Cox’s character follows the formula and actually starts looking up at Russell as a father figure and bonds with swearing and illegal acts, oh let me break out my violin.
DIRECTION
This is the only aspect that makes it bearable to watch but really is just used to distract you from the horrible story, it’s a shame the lack the intelligence that they think the audience has. The director work just screams that his whole experience is from music video. He throws everything in the book from fast cuts, fast forward movement, slow mo, transitions, hype editing, and zooms, plus anything else. It’s like he had a final project in a video production class and had a list of 50 different shots to do and complete for a film. The direction was well done and kept everything interesting but you need to have a purpose for what you do and after a while it got really distracting. You really have to look at the big picture and see this wasn’t the going to make up for this horrible story and is just wasted.
PROBLEMS
Needless to say this whole thing is a pointless confusing awkward excessive mess from beginning to end. After the heist there no point to the movie, you know what’s going to happen at the end because everything is so meaningless. The are several scenes that happen out of the blue with no explanation of why they are there. It takes excessiveness to such as extreme that if you went to see this at the theater you going to end up with drool running down the side of your face and an uncontrollable desire to keep eating your straw that you already have deformed beyond recognition.
DVD FEATURES
If there is any movie that doesn’t deserve to be shown in DVD this would be on the top of the list. 3000 Miles is presented in the 2:35 anamorpic widescreen format and for the most part provides it good detail and quality to the picture. I believe the 2:35 aspect ratio is the best format, and I can’t believe they wasted it on this picture. Don’t even bother looking for special features because they virtually dont exist. They only thing you will find is info on the cast and crew(what a waste) and the trailer shown in the theater, that’s it. There are no animated menu to speak of, just the background of the cover art but at the end of movie during the credits they have all the cast separately dancing to Elvis music, what a treat that is.
CONCLUSION
Please if you haven’t seen this horrid movie, do not plan on it because it’s a waste of time and space. There really is no redeeming qualities that haven’t been done before with other action flicks. Everyone assiocated with this production should be ran out of town and be prevented from doing any work in the motion picture industry for five years There only so much you can turn your brain off to until it starts going in spasms and tells you enough is enough