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3000 Miles to Graceland
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 48 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Richard Recco
Demian Lichtenstein
Directed by: Demian Lichtenstein
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 23, 2001
DVD: August 7, 2001
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
Oddly entertaining ride.
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.
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.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
This is a high octane ride that starts to leak gas before it even gets going.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Larry Terenzi
Vapid, humorless, screeching, and utterly suckworthy.
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
If drive-ins still existed, this film would rule there for weeks.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Showcased in 3,000 Miles are two of the longest, noisiest, bloodiest and most ludicrous shootouts ever staged.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
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.
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A mind-numbing, bloody, ridiculous experience.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This coarse, nearly incoherent action picture apparently aspires to a 'Pulp Fiction"-like mixture of brutality and self-referential insouciance.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity.
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Nothing but miscalculation from clumsy start to chaotic finish, an action thriller with a cynical, shriveled soul.
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
One of those movies that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair, disgust, or maybe both.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
The film isn't merely bungled. It's starved and battered by Lichtenstein.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 48 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tarah D gave it a10:
GREAT GREAT GREAT FREAKING MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've watched over in over again in my home, and saw it twice in theaters - Blow the hell outta any thing that moves, Steal the cash, and Get the Girl - what more could you ask for?
Rod G. gave it an8:
Are you serious? Sure the movie is violent but it's entertaining too. For all you people that liked The English Patient or some other equally crappy movie, this movie would not be for you.
Glenn M. gave it a9:
Great action film. Ice Cube's minor role is unbelievable.
Jayson B. gave it an8:
I don't care what the ritics say. It was fun and the actors did okay. I enjoyed it a lot.
Bob R. gave it an8:
Awesome fun, off the wall movie. I can't see why this go so many negative reviews. Who would have thought Costner would play this part and Cox adds some glitz to a very resonable heist movie.
T Hill gave it an 8:
I really really dig this flick.
Dave C. gave it a 1:
Utterly senseless and ridicuous. That anybody could like this film just goes to show the kind of world we live in. Courtney Cox is hopelessly inept and Kurt Russel and Kevin Costner don't need tacky Elvis costumes to make themselves look washed out. This is true celluloid excrement.
