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3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) Rank 5 Reviews
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The Movie Chicks
"Crime Is King" Michael (Kurt Russell) and Murphy (Kevin Costner) have dreamed up a unique robbery ("because everybody robs banks"). They decide to steal from a casino during International Elvis Week in Las Vegas. Their team ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at The Movie Chicks
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San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
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DVDActive (Pete Roberts)
Certainly not ground-breaking or original, but there are enough twists and turns to carry this film through admirably. The visuals are stunning and the audio is serviceable but sadly the extras could be improved. Nevertheless, the film holds its own and ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at DVDActive (Pete Roberts)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
The funnest movie that I've seen so far this year! It's got style, it's got tough guys talkin' s**te and it's got plenty of bullets to go around. A definite hunk-a-hunk-a burnin' adventure! A guy's guy movie through and through, and one that'll set your ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
3000 Miles is packed with action, color, time-lapse photography, and even a gratuitous music video at the end (performed by Russell in full Elvis regalia). But writer/director Lichtenstein's direction has not matured from the frenetic style of his other ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Movie Gazette (Andrea Chee)
This is an effective stylish actioner with some good shootouts, but it would need to make better use of some of its supporting characters to be really outstanding. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movie Gazette (Andrea Chee)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
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Well the king is back or should I say the king’s are
back. You may be asking yourself I thought he was dead? He is, It international
Elvis week in the film called 3000 Miles To Graceland. There are a ton of
people who are king wannabe who are decked ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
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eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
Russell and Costner deliver up some of the most amusing portrayals of their careers as casino-robbing Elvis impersonators ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
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eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)
A Seismic Blast of Cinematic Pleasure ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)
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Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Michael is the electronic genius who manipulates the hotel elevator to stage the get away, while the other four kill enough police officers and security personnel to open a new cemetery. As usual, the stars of the movie, in this case the bad guys, are ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Film Monthly (Hank Yuloff)
Movies for Guys
Overall, our opinion is the movie has a great premise and a spectacular cast, but doesn't quite live up to it's potential. Despite that, there are some great action sequences and eye candy. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movies for Guys
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DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there lived a young actor. He became very famous playing modest Everyman roles (because the mythical Tom Hanks had not yet been invented). The young man developed in stature and esteem, was worshipped far and ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
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The premise is simplistic, a group of Elvis impersonators barge into a Las Vegas casino toting automatic weapons, stroll into the cash room and clean the place out.
Words fail to express how much this movie sucks. From the story set up where Kurt ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at LowComDom Online Film Reviews
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
[Director Demian Lichtenstein]'s as lazy and as generally incompetant as Ang Lee. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Michael is the relative "good guy," just out of prison and not exactly enthusiastic about the deed to be done, but doing it anyway, perhaps because he spent some time as Murphy's cellmate. You know Michael's the relative good guy because he's immediately ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
I've been to Graceland twice. And I know I will go again. Yes, indeedy, I am a big fan! I loved all of the Elvis '. The young twitching Elvis, the Elvis in the 1968 comeback TV (who could ever forget that black leather outfit) special, the fat Elvis, ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
A high octane ride that starts to leak gas before it even gets going. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
No doubt about it, 3000 Miles to Graceland, is not a good movie. The acting is sub-par, the over-the-top directing style gets old after 10 minutes, and the movie seems to drag on and on and on. BUT, if you're looking for a classic "R" rated ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
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Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
This is, of course, a popcorn movie. It is filled with gunfire from large, phallic guns and ridiculously large explosions. The movie is loaded with testosterone. Women appear mainly as sex objects (although Cox's character is very aggressive). It is ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Nine-tenths attitude and one-tenth gunplay, this testosterone-fueled story has a tasty premise - in the middle of an Elvis convention in Las Vegas, a team of five Elvis impersonators rob a casino. (A couple of weeks ago it was a high school cheerleaders ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Cineclub-Filmkritik
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Elvis, Las Vegas, and this film all share a common element ... excess. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Franchise Pictures' business plan of producing pet projects that big name stars could not get made anywhere else for one reason or another appears wise. More often than not, though, once these projects are made, that one reason or another why those ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Bad Color Photography (RellimGoud)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
This is a poorly directed and scripted derivative casino heist movie, shamelessly stealing jokes, plot situations and shootout scenarios from many other such films including "Ocean's 11," "Honeymoon in Vegas," "The Limey," and "Reindeer Games." All the ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Bob Bloom
You enjoy the show, but are embarrassed and feel foolish about it.The same emotions tend to rear up during this outlandish crime caper.3000 Miles to Graceland is, like Elvis, chintzy retro. It is ultraviolent and bloody, but in such a cartoonish manner ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Bob Bloom
DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
Even at a "ship 'em up, move 'em out" list price under that magic twenty dollar range, 3,000 Miles To Graceland isn't worth the trip. If you feel compelled to see this movie, rent it. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
It seems that there are two approaches to producing DVD’s today: go all out with a feature filled special edition that sells for $$$, or produce a movie only edition that sell for cheap. Both segments of the DVD market have loyal clientele, I for one ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
Scott Mantz:
In the new movie "3000 Miles to Graceland," Kurt Russell and Kevin
Costner play a couple of Elvis impersonators who try to rob a Las
Vegas casino during an Elvis Convention. Considering that The ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
It’s a shame the movie is ultimately so worthless, because the acting isn’t half-bad ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
Dustin Putman
The movie opens as five exconvicts set out to rob a Las Vegas casino holding an Elvis Presley convention. Dressed as Presley himself so as to blend in, they manage to escape with $2.3 in cold, hard cash, but not before a bloody massacre that leave many, ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Dustin Putman
Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
Obvious from the outset that this Clambake would be a shameless Hollywood glam-scam, wise men say only fools rush in – and Kurt Russell, the best Elvis of all time (well, uh, besides the real one...) – gets himself into Double Trouble by donning this cap ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
culturevulture.net (Scott Von Doviak)
The actors do what they can with a script that never should have made it across their agents' desks. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at culturevulture.net (Scott Von Doviak)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
You WERE expecting helicopters, weren’t you? ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
It will come as no surprise
to learn, for those people unfortunate enough to view 3000 MILES TO
GRACELAND, that its director, Demian Lichtenstein, started off his career in
music videos. In fact, it is largely because he directs this feature length ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Michael Dequina
However, it must be said that the film is not a complete bore. In fact, once the film's first action sequence hits about 20 minutes in, it looks as if a mildly diverting action thriller is kicking in. Amid the hubbub of Elvis week in Vegas, Russell's ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Michael Dequina
That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
So-called "High Concept" films are the rage of the studios these days. If you can't boil down a movie to one sentence, it's much less likely to be made. Fortunately for 3000 Miles to Graceland, whose single sentence description would be "Elvis ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Let's imagine you've seen the trailers for the film,3000 Miles to Graceland.Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner are depicted as Elvis impersonators, part of a gang bent on robbing a Las Vegas casino, while the original Elvis beltsSuch ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Kurt Russell. Kevin Costner. Courteney Cox. David Arquette. Christian Slater. Bokeem Woodbine. Howie Long. Kevin Pollak. Jon Lovitz. Thomas Haden Church. Paul Anka. Ice-T. Bet you never expected those last two, at least, to ever appear in ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
In my mind, there are different "brands" of movies. You have your excellent, good, ok, pretty bad, and terrible. Within these, you have sub-categories. Let me cut to the chase. In your "terrible" section, you have cheesy, stupid, and just plain dumb. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
Daily-Reviews.com (Chuck Dowling)
There was certainly potential here. However, the execution failed. And more importantly, the director failed. 3000 Miles to Graceland could have been a lot of fun, but instead it just turns out to be a silly bore. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Daily-Reviews.com (Chuck Dowling)
Steve Rhodes
Joining Michael for the ride is Courteney Cox, as "Cybil with a 'C'," and her thieving 10yearold son, Jesse (David Kaye), as in Jesse James. Get it? Well enjoy it, since that's about as funny as 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND ever gets.The busy script by ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Steve Rhodes
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Those of you hoping to hear about a clever casino heist picture in the style of Ocean's Eleven are in for a sore disappointment. From this movie's opening frames, featuring dueling CGI-animated scorpions, it's obvious that we're in for some punk-ass ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
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 ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
MovieMaze (Thomas Straßer)
Hollywood Hostel (Tim Chandler)
It is an incredible feeling to actually feel your brain cells dying thanks to a film's incomprehensibility ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Hollywood Hostel (Tim Chandler)
Radio Free Entertainment (Andrew Manning)
An exciting, action-packed heist sadly followed up by stupid con games and bad relationships. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Radio Free Entertainment (Andrew Manning)
Hollywood Hostel (Al Franken)
Palo Alto Online (Joe Mader)
Jae-Hee and Lee Seung-yun in 3-IronSouth Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk has emerged as a unique voice, even though his films are virtually silent. With last year's sublime Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, he blended art-film aesthetics with ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Palo Alto Online (Joe Mader)
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Reel.com
Kurt Russell famously made his film debut kicking Elvis Presley in the 1962 comedy It Happened at the World's Fair. Seventeen years later, he seemingly channeled the King in John Carpenter's 1979 made-for-TV biopic, Elvis: The Movie. So, there's little ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Reel.com
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
The Tarantino effect is very much in evidence in this trashy, senseless, and excessively violent actioner about a casino heist that goes uproariously awry. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Images (C) Warner Bros. Genre : Comedy Cast : Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Courteney Cox-Arquette, David Arquette, Christian Slater Synopsis : It's International Elvis Week in Las Vegas, where the strip is flooded by a sea of King wannabes decked out in ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
It really is true how when you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the most recent one doesn’t pack the most quality. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
The movie presumes we will care about its characters, but does little to warrant such compassion. The longer the film gets, the less sense it makes. Costner would be funny if he weren't so laughable; Russell has charm, but it avails him nothing, as ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Demian Lichtenstein's 3000 Miles to Graceland opens in the middle of the Nevada desert with a close-up, frenetic battle to the death between two seemingly giant computer-generated scorpions with leering cartoonish scowls. Much like the rest of the ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Glorifies dishonesty, casual sex, drinking and smoking, mistrust, cheating, crime, and gratuitous ultra-violence. It is not only socially irresponsible, it is insulting. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Daily-Reviews (Chuck Dowling)
Could have been a lot of fun, but instead it just turns out to be a silly bore... ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Daily-Reviews (Chuck Dowling)
New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
The picture feels longer than Presley's career and as irrelevant as he was by the end. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
The smirking dialogue plays especially poorly in juxtaposition with the excessive violence. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Mr. Showbiz (Lawrence Terenzi)
Nonsense from its first frame to its last, stupid beyond even the conventions of its genre, it begs the question of responsibility. ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Mr. Showbiz (Lawrence Terenzi)
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Review by Mark Dujsik
To paraphrase Pulp Fiction, there are two kinds of
people: Elvis-people and Beatles-people. 3,000 Miles to Graceland is
guaranteed to immediately change Elvis-people into Beatles-people. If you’re
one of those people, welcome!
I ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
You know you're in trouble when a movie has more Elvis impersonators than it has brain cells. You know you're in trouble when you're looking at your watch before the opening credits have finished. And you really know you're in trouble when the best perfor ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
I briefly flirted with the idea of peppering my review with lyrics from Elvis songs, until I realized that the King didn't sing the kind of words I needed to use. The worst I could come up with was, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," and that's ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Curse-a-my soul This movie couldn’t be worse The prints should be delivered from the back of a Hearse ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND, while possessing both the best movie title of recent years *and* the can't-believe-it casting of Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner as rival, casino-robbing Elvis impersonators, is strictly DOAOT. (Dead on arrival on toilet.) Loud, ...read the complete 3000 Miles to Graceland movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
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