Load of rubbish!!

Great Film overall

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Let me start off by saying that Elvis Presley is my favourite solo artist ever. He may not have a knack for song writing and he is not a great guitar player like Eddie Van Halen, but he is still the best. 3000 Miles to Graceland is not the first Elvis movie not about Elvis, but it looked like it was about to be the best. After all, the desert landscape in Nevada is the perfect setting for the beginning of an action and adventure picture. And the film starts off with promise. Well, "promise" may be the wrong word. It seemed to be a fun, irresistible action picture. The movie is about Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner as die-hard Elvis fans who plan to rob a casino during an Elvis convention. The robbery is awesome with explosive action, flashy settings, and the song "Such A Night" playing. When one of their men gets killed, the others argue about their cuts of the loot. So Costner kills the men and takes all the money for himself. But Russell survives. He enlists the help of a single mother (Courtenay Cox) who he met earlier in the film to catch Costner. I've always had the hots for Cox, but she seems to be her prettiest right here. Her failed attempt at the Southern accent didn't even bother me. It is after this when the movie starts falling apart. One of the main reasons is how forgettable everything else is. Sure Costner plays a badass and we would like to see Russell get even, but the final showdown could not come soon enough. Sure there's a scene where Russell and Costner are in jail, Jon Lovitz plays a pawn-broker, but none of these work to the story's advantage. It doesn't move forward. But it could have been totally fun! Throw in a couple of more action scenes and don't make Russell the sole survivor. That would have made this a better film altogether. Do this, and get somebody else to direct it. The directing was good, with all the oblique angles and cinematography, but it seemed like the director knew the film was shallow and this was the candy to make up for it. When the ending does come along, there is a cool shootout, almost as good as the one at the beginning. But the scene before is dumb and not believable. This diminished the ending of the film to almost sucking. I did like the ending, but I didn't love it like I did the beginning. Elvis' most underrated song "Such A Night" is the most prominent one in the movie. The ending features a music video of Kurt Russell lip-syncing the song. Go on Youtube and watch it now. The movie itself? You can skip it.

Michael Zane (Kurt Russell) meets Cybil (Courteney Cox) and his thieving kid at a desolate motel. He sleeps with her after 5 1/2 years behind bars. Elvis fanatic Thomas Murphy (Kevin Costner), Hanson (Christian Slater), Gus (David Arquette) and Franklin (Bokeem Woodbine) come to pick him up for a job. They set off to rob the Riviera Casino as Elvis impersonators.The movie tries so hard to be an edgy crime drama. It starts from the beginning with the CG scorpion battle. It looks cheesy and bad. There is some shoot em up action but not done that well. Too much slow motion is used. Everything is done aggressively that none of it is that compelling. Demian Lichtenstein is simply not at the upper echelon of directors that this movie needs. The kid is so annoying. Some of the characters act stupidly. None of them are likable and there is no rooting interest. It's a slick crime drama but the style doesn't work.

This is one of those good average movies. I love a good action movie and this has it, yet the sex and bad language was unneeded. But, as is the case, this is what the people want.The movie does do well in showing the terribleness of guns while still having good action scenes. The violence is not unlike that of more historical movies like 300 or worse. The violence is artistic, (if violence can ever be called that,) but it is violent. More or less, the bad content goes down to sex and language, take that out you have a violent action movie few would complain about. The movie has a good story involving a young boy, named after Jesse James the war hero turned criminal. The kid in the beginning is fascinated with gangsters which is a good theme for teens.Overall I must say it is a good movie for action fans who can handle the content, but these are things so abundant in our culture that people may fail to see the problem. If you, like I, don't like bad language there is better movies. If violence is what you don't like, there are good dramas and comedy's without it. Don't like sex in movies, as I feel the same with, let me know of good movies without it. But, it can be said that there are worse movies when it comes to content.

Just finished watching this movie and after 10 years it has only gotten harder to view. There are some nice actors that have since gone on to bigger things, and some old actors that we haven't heard much from lately, so I thought it was worth a repeat view.I was a bit off the mark. There are some decent scenes, and it was nice to see familiar faces portraying somewhat interesting characters, but the premise of the film is so lacking credibility that I felt irritated throughout.First of all, if you are going to rob a casino full of Elvis impersonators while being dressed like Elvis why don't you use this to help escape or blend in?? Then, how do you spray every camera except the one that shows you taking the money? Why would you then have to go through the entire casino floor to get to the roof? This would perhaps be the most ridiculous- but it is topped by the struggle which makes up the entire rest of the movie- the money is taken from HARD COUNT.Now anyone who knows anything about casinos knows that they take in a lot of cash money. This money has to be counted (these are the people in the room where the gang-o-thieves grab the cash). This is not money from the bank but money going to the bank and therefore this money is in no way marked and there is absolutely NO REASON for it to be marked. So going to find someone to launder this cash is completely idiotic. Therefore the rest of this movie is idiotic and makes no sense whatsoever. Really people, I know this isn't supposed to be real life but base a movie on some sort of reality. Or else call it science fiction or fantasy or something. This was so far fetched that I couldn't objectively watch the rest. Too bad? Or maybe just as well.