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3000 Miles to Graceland
Snap Case
Actors: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak
Director: Demian Lichtenstein
Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Suspense

R 2001 2hr 5min

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, WITH $3.2 MILLION IN STOLEN JACK.PARTICIPANTS IN A LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL ELVIS WEEK PULL OFF A DARING CASINO HEIST, THEN MUST CONFRONT THEIR WORST ENEMY:EACH OTHER. SPECIAL FEATURES: ORIGINAL... more »

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Actors: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak
Director: Demian Lichtenstein
Creators: Demian Lichtenstein, Andrew Stevens, Don Carmody, Elie Samaha, Eric Manes, Richard Recco
Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Crime, Kurt Russell, Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen,Anamorphic - Closed-captioned,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 08/07/2001
Original Release Date: 02/23/2001
Theatrical Release Date: 02/23/2001
Release Year: 2001
Run Time: 2hr 5min
Screens: Color,Widescreen,Anamorphic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 1
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, French

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Member Movie Reviews

Sharon F. (Shar) from AVON PARK, FL
Reviewed on 2/14/2022...

Kurt Russell made a GREAT Elvis impersonator! Fun movie with lots of action as he and Kevin Costner try to rob a casino during Elvis Week in Vegas.

3 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Sharon C. (Sierrastar) from BLYTHEWOOD, SC
Reviewed on 8/31/2011...

I enjoyed this movie. I was not sure weather I would enjoy it or not when I first rented it but it kept me interested enough that I never took a popcorn break. It was worth the watch and I am glad I took the chance and rented it. I don't consider it a keeper myself.

1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Deidra C. (Deidra670) from GARRETT, KY
Reviewed on 10/16/2010...

Oh man!! I love this movie!!
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND is the&s#@@!! How can you not love a movie with big guns, trashy women, a big casino heist and Elvis!!

Michael has just been released from jail and arrives at a rundown motel to wait for his buddies. In the meantime, Michael meets Courtney Cox and they have a steamy encounter that connects. But lurking in the background is the grand plan--to hold up a Las Vegas casino during the midst of an Elvis convention.

Kevin Costner is one of the would-be robbers and he is the spooky kind of guy your mom warned you about. One should definitely cross the street to avoid him, if one saw him coming near. And he has secrets that he is quite passionate in keeping.

The action is awesome, violent and heartbreaking. Costner plays a character with soooo many layers that even at the end, I still thought there was more to tell and the chemistry between Russell and Cox is smokin'!!

3000 MILES TO GRACELAND is the ultimate thrill ride, just a flat out funnier (bad pun) time! The absolute best way to spend a couple hours. So just sit back, put your feet up, have a BIG bag of popcorn and prepare to totally lose yourself in this film!!

Two thumbs up and a snap!!

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Rachael J. (RachaelJordan) from GAINESVILLE, FL
Reviewed on 9/10/2010...

Good characters,Good storyline.Love Courtney Cox in it.

1 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Movie Reviews

Some People Just Don't Get It

Kimberly Hough | San Diego, CA | 06/22/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've read reviews whining because some people thought this movie was about Elvis. I guess I just don't see criticizing a movie because of an erroneous assumption, when the movie is GOOD. I mean, damn good. Kurt Russell, in not his first stint as Elvis (or in this case, an impersonator for the sake of a robbery) is wonderfully understated and kind of the calm during the storm in this movie. The storm? That would be Kevin Costner, who plays the baddest bad man of his career, I dare say. With all of the romantic hero roles he's played, this role goes a long way in showing the many talents of this actor. How he could be so bad and yet, likeable, is amazing to me. Courtney Cox has the trashy-sex-kitten-with-a-good-heart thing going on, and her son is too wise for his years in a realistic, yet sad, way. Yes, this movie has some violence. Is it more violent than other movies? Well, yeah, if you're talking about Bounce, it does. The point is, this movie is immensely entertaining, and never boring. And that's what movies are all about, yes?"

Costner IS the King (well, only his son)

Marion Cobretti | New York City | 02/23/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I know that some people will say that this is a rip off of Ocean's Eleven, or Reservoir Dogs, or whatever pseudoflick they've watched lately, and there are some things alike, but this movie IS certainly cool entertainment at its best. Costner plays a psycho (who says he is Elvis's love son), and Russell a misfit, in the wrong place at the wrong time, who try to pull a heist, but it goes awry. People have said that it is too violent, that the shootings look made up, but, hey, that's the point: it looks crazy because it is supposed to be crazy; Courtney Cox leaves her child with Kurt because she was nuts, they fall in love because this IS a movie, it isn't supposed to be a real life story. Of course, everybody is entitled to have an opinion, but before you express yours: WATCH this film. Even if I'm not the biggest Kevin Costner fan, I mus admit that he is the best part and the best actor here. This movie IS the coolest new release"

Cool, hip, noir -and a helluva ride!!

marcelacarolina | Los Angeles, CA | 06/01/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Boy, do I agree with the other review: this movie is sooo good, so underrated that it's odd that it wasn't a bigger hit. The known story is: a group of mean, hard criminals go to Las Vegas to rob one of the casinos, the robbery goes fairly well, but they didn't know that the meanest, most badass of them doesn't believe in splitting the money. I have to say that I was surprised by the role of Kevin costner, psychotic characters are very common, violent ones too, but very few of them can come even close to the way Costner looks and acts in this film (there's a scene when he intimidates the guy who was going to clean the money, where you can really feel how threatening he is, how violent and psychotic he could get). Kudos for Kevin, even if he wasn't one of my favorite actors, he is one now. Forget the negative reviews, forget the pseudo-connoisseurs who want to show how clever and witty they are and how ignorant and fool we (audiences) are: this is a great way to spend two hours of thrills and fun, not everything has to be existencial or meaningful, this film is fun, entertainment, and Costner is greater than life here, cooler that any character you can remember. Watch this movie, buy the DVD, you'll be thanking you did. Really."

Great story: Costner at his best -really!!

J. Gabriel Estrada Quintero | Mexico City | 02/17/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had the good luck of being invited to a preview of 3KMTG (while on a trip), and what some people had said would be another Tarantino-like movie (nihilistic movie-making full of childish dialogues that mean nothing and don't even entertain) turned out to be a very good and entertaining film. By now everybody knows the story: a bunch of goons (commanded by Costner) go to Las Vegas to rob a casino, which happens to go so bad that soon after the shooting and death of security guards and some pretty cool action sequences, all of them turn against each other. Kevin Costner (grrreat as a cold-blooded, mean badass) shows that despite the ill fashion of hating him (his only sin has been to overestimate the intelligence and sensibility of moviegoers) can portray other characters as well -or even better- than the next door middle-age man he's done a couple of times before. This IS great fun, open your minds, enjoy this movie for what it is: cool, hip road noir."

Don't step on his Blue Suede Shoes

Dark Mechanicus JSG | Fortified Bunker, USSA | 10/10/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Let's break this down and serve it up faster and hotter than one of those fried banana-and-peanut-butter sandwiches The King himself loved so much: "3000 Miles to Graceland" is one of the fastest, tightest, hottest, gun-slingingest, ammo-pumpingest, dead sexy, little bloodbaths I've ever had the good fortune to come across.

One blue suede shoe over two hours long, director Demian Lichtenstein has created a white-hot little shot of pure cinematic adrenaline, cooked up with some of the tightest editing I've ever seen, brutal gun battles in which every bullet-riddled sequence keeps trying to up the ante on its predecessor, a Las Vegas casino (the Riviera) full of Elvis impersonators of every size, shape and sort, sexy Vegas showgirls with abs of steel, toe-tapping techno and rockabilly tunes to accompany the grand carnage, more double-crosses and twists than a West Virginia logging road, and high-voltage double barrelled starpower featuring Kevin Costner in his best role ever (as a villain!), Kurt Russell, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, and David Arquette.

Besides, how can you fault a movie that takes the average action film's gunfight quotient, triples it, and delivers the gory goods in spades---*and* begins and ends with a techno scorpion deathmatch *and* a bloodbath? Answer: You can't.

The plot is action-movie simplicity itself: Russell plays drifter and con-man Michael Zane, who hooks up with fellow footpad Thomas Murphy (played to the rhinestone-plated hilt by Kevin Costner) and two other villains (Christian Slater and Bokeem Woodbine) to pull off a 3.2 million dollar heist at the Las Vegas Riviera casino during the International Elvis Impersonator Night.

Director Lichtenstein is my kind of director, too: he doesn't waste time with lots of exposition, but digs right into the main attraction and shoots our jumpsuit-costumed perfectly-coiffed Memphis drawling robbers into the casino, and "3000 Miles" starts out with one of the slickest, lead-pumpingest gunfights this side of Blue Hawaii, to say nothing of the surreal sequence with the helicopter set to the toe-tapping goodness of Elvis's "Such a Night".

Faster than you can fry up a Montecristo sandwich the casino gets robbed, crosses get doubled, conspirators get buried in shallow graves, Russell falls in with the sultry Cox and her son, the Feds get called in, and nothing but trouble looms for everyone involved. The editing here is tight, the gun-battles intense, the Elvis riffs yummy, the dancing girls delicious, and the climactic stand-off is roaring good fun, pitting Kevin Costner's drawling and well-armed lunatic against a small army of SWAT police.

Lichtenstein delivers the goods with tight editing and breathless action, making the finished product look like it cost three times as much as it did. The acting here is also all first rate, from Cox and Costner (who should play more villains), to Russell (who exudes pure unadulterated cool), to Slater, Woodbine, and a small squad of veteran character actors---including Jon Lovitz as a money launderer, Howie Long in yet *another* role as a hip thug, Ice-T as the hitman's hitman, and even Lorraine Cote, who has made a career playing an old lady surgically attached to a Las Vegas one-armed bandit.

If you're looking for deep and introspective, look elsewhere---but if you're looking for a rip-roaring, take-no-prisoners little hound dog of a movie that the King himself would have enjoyed, "3000 Miles to Graceland" is three thousand miles of pure delight.

JSG"