Reader comments: 3000 Miles to Graceland

JUAN M GONZALEZ | Jan. 24, 2002
Couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. I watched exactly 28 minutes of this on DVD and could go no further. I have seen Costner cardboard acting before but when he can't even deliver profanity convincingly we are in trouble folks. Early on he as a segment in which he must use the dreaded "f" word about six time in 90 seconds (a la Tarentino and a short subsitute for real dialogue) and believe it or not it was absolutely laughable. It sounded like he was reading it off of a cue card, I kid you not!!!. Then the ethnic element of the gang gets shot as they escape by helicopter from the casino (how racially convenient and stereotypical) and after what looks either a good bye kiss or mouth to mouth by Costner (he comes up looking like a three year old who has just devoured a strawberry jam sandwhich without a napkin) I said to myself, "they are going to throw the body out of the helicopter" (brillant criminal move in an escape attempt). No sooner thought than done and I almost hurt myself reaching for the stop button on the remote in order to stop the pain. That's enough of inanity. How do they get budgets for monstrosities such as this?
RONEN TOTONCHI | Aug. 19, 2001
I was expecting much more from Kevin Costner and Kurt Russel . The worse part was the annoying music.I hated it .
DAVID FAIRCHILD | Apr. 11, 2001
Let's see... Kevin Costner attempting to look like the king. Kevin Costner attempting to sound like the king. That should be your first clue, that this movie may just need help. However, If you like the violence and feel that guns and blood and gore make for a great movie then this movie might just interest you. I wouldn't take a date to it, because she definitely won't be feeling romantic afterword. Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, and good old sexy legs Arquette make up the story of an ex-con who gets out of prison to do what else?, rob a casino and shoot everyone up in the process with his ex-cell buddy Kevin Costner who thinks he is the long lost son of Elvis Presley. Exactly what a fresh ex-con would do, I suspect. In the adventure of this very dry movie Kurt Russell and Arquette find each other and blah blah blah blah blah. In addition, Costner meets up with a bunch of people and 99% of them all end up bleeding.... badly. I would reccommend seeing this in the dollar theater if you want to see it, you'd waste less money than renting it on video.

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