![]() The 3-D skills that Lussier honed on his 2009 slasher flick My Bloody Valentine come in handy for the flying body parts and ejected shotgun shells of his latest, and he earns Brownie points for using character actors like genre vet Tom Atkins and Eastbound & Down’s irrepressible Katy Mixon. More so than his line: “I never disrobe for a gunfight.” The scene where Milton wipes out an entire gang of attackers one by one without actually removing himself from the floozy he’s screwing with his clothes on is quite memorable. There isn’t much to Vancouver-raised director Patrick Lussier’s film besides mayhem and muscle cars, but he sure gets those things right. Early on, Milton hooks up with a hot white-trash waitress (Amber Heard) because she’s got the ’69 Charger he needs to get where he’s going in style-and to, hopefully, stay one step ahead of Satan’s envoy, the Accountant (William Fichtner). The main gunslinger is Milton (Cage), who drives a ’64 Riviera straight outta Hades to avenge the brutal slaying of his daughter and rescue his infant granddaughter, who has been kidnapped by a satanic-cult leader with charismatic sideburns (Billy Burke). ![]() DA3D is an over-the-top, supernatural action-gore epic that aims for the same type of frenzied vibe as last year’s Machete, but instead of slashing blades, it goes heavy on the bullets. ![]()
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