All movies3000 Miles to Graceland

Rated:

R

Running time:

2:05 minutes

Release date:

January 2, 2001

Capsule review:

Ex-con and Elvis admirer Kevin Costner heads up a crew of armed robbers intent on knocking over a Vegas casino, an exercise that is over barely half an hour into the film. Kurt Russell plays Costner's ex-cellmate and friend who, when things go bad, is caught between a rock (Costner and his twin .45s) and a hard place (a woman he doesn't trust, played by Courteney Cox, and her juvenile-delinquent son, played by David Kaye). This mess of cliches, visual tricks and explosions was helmed by someone named Demian Lichtenstein, who must have graduated from the MTV film academy. "3000 Miles to Graceland," a title that makes about as much sense as anything else, is not just a bad film. It's worse. It boasts enough quality to make the many flaws stand out even more. Say this much for director Lichtenstein: He makes Michael Bay ("Armageddon") look like the second coming of Orson Welles.