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73
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72
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72
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71
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69
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67
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67
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67
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67
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66
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65
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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59
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58
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57
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56
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56
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32
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20
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3000 Miles to Graceland
Warner Bros.
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, sexuality and language
Starring
Kevin Costner,
Kurt Russell,
Christian Slater,
Courteney Cox,
Howie Long,
Jon Lovitz,
and
David Arquette
It's International Elvis Week in Las Vegas, where the strip is flooded by a sea of King wannabes decked out in jumpsuits and sideburns. But five of the impersonators swaggering into the Riviera Hotel and Casino are toting heavy weaponry in their guitar cases. It's the heist of a lifetime, orchestrated by ex-con Michael (Russell) and his cunning former cellmate, Murphy (Costner). (Warner Brothers)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Richard Recco
Demian Lichtenstein
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Demian Lichtenstein
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 7, 2001
Video: August 7, 2001
Theatrical: February 23, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
124 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
At first Costner seems to distrust the hokey character he plays, but his performance and the movie's slanted humor, rash melodrama, and ludicrous action soon become riveting.

63
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Oddly entertaining ride.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
An exercise in excess, but it's the best of the month's crop of mindless films, if only because it jumps off the screen with acertain pop and playfulness.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Feels much more like a very, very long, music video, albeit one made for an audience that gets off on high-tech firepower rather than nearly-naked babes.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
This is a high octane ride that starts to leak gas before it even gets going.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
An odd mix of seediness, sideburns and even scorpions, the movie nearly matches the Lisa Marie-Michael Jackson marriage for weirdness.

40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
On the reasonable assumption that no movie featuring an Elvis impersonator can be wholly bad, I was prepared for a high old time at 3000 Miles to Graceland, which exhibits a plenitude of Elvi. The exhibition does not last very long, however. Less than a third of the way through, the filmmakers jettison the premise and trash their own movie.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
Vapid, humorless, screeching, and utterly suckworthy.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The end result is overkill en extremis. There is such a thing as too much. And 3KMTG is much too much.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
If drive-ins still existed, this film would rule there for weeks.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Showcased in 3,000 Miles are two of the longest, noisiest, bloodiest and most ludicrous shootouts ever staged.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
This sophomoric film has little to do with Elvis, and everything to do with putting as much carnage as possible on screen under the guise of art, poetry, choreography, taxidermy.
38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here's a movie without an ounce of human kindness, a sour and mean-spirited enterprise so desperate to please, it tries to be a yukky comedy and a hard-boiled action picture at the same time.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A mind-numbing, bloody, ridiculous experience.
30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This coarse, nearly incoherent action picture apparently aspires to a 'Pulp Fiction"-like mixture of brutality and self-referential insouciance.

25
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Like the Big E himself. It starts out fast, dangerous, sexy, confident, funny with an edge. It ends up confused, bloated, unable to leave the stage when it should.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
So violent and junky it seems to have been designed as evidence for the growing congressional movement to censor Hollywood.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
An overstuffed, underfed numbskull movie.

20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
This bloated spectacle has all the get-up-and-go of one of the legendary late-era Elvis Presley concerts. The picture feels longer than Presley's career and as irrelevant as he was by the end.

10
Time
Richard Schickel
Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity.
10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Nothing but miscalculation from clumsy start to chaotic finish, an action thriller with a cynical, shriveled soul.
10
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
One of those movies that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair, disgust, or maybe both.

10
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King. If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building -- in disgust.

10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Costner's not a mannered showboat, and what we get isn't a riff—it's a semi-oblivious glimpse of bitter outlaw banality.

0
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
I suggest you think of this movie as another bad sausage from the Warner Bros. meat-packing factory. And you should think of this review as a government health warning. Eat this thing at your peril.

0
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A vile, stupid and ugly movie lacking utterly in pep, thrills, humor, finesse or morals, a dissipating waste of time, money and human resources.
0
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
What you get is the V trifecta: vile, vicious and violent. Oh, and incoherent and stupid. A mess. A mean-spirited completely worthless film that can never give back the two hours it seizes from you.

0
Film.com
Tom Keogh
The film isn't merely bungled. It's starved and battered by Lichtenstein.

0
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
A mean-spirited, hyperviolent, stupid movie.


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