Review – 3000 Miles to Graceland

There’s just got to be an easier way to make a living than dressing up like an Elvis impersonator and staging a bloody robbery of a Las Vegas casino. Of course if you’re Kurt Russell or Kevin Costner, maybe you’re just happy to have work at all. Cast as the villain, Costner turns out to be the highlight of the movie. He’s so wrong for the role that it actually ends up working out in an odd way. If nothing else, the scene where he sneaks through a police roadblock by pretending to be a sports fan is not to be missed. Otherwise, unfortunately, the plot wavers somewhere between vaguely entertaining in a silly road picture sort of way and vaguely nerve-grating in a Quentin Tarrantino sort of way. The final product is an over-long blend of humor and violence that works just often enough to justify the rental price but not much more. Mildly amusing