It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy. "He who has the gun makes the rules" the golden rule of Murphy that he follows to eliminate the members of the gang he lead to rob a casino. But one man evades the gun and holds the money, Michael. Caught between Michael and Murphy is Cybil and her son Jesse. With the Marshals on their trail, both come up with escape plans. Someone else said it's like Marmite, you either like it or hate it. Well I hate Marmite and I can truly say that this movie makes me think of Marmite or at least a word that rhymes with it.<br/><br/>What a complete load of tosh this is. I have in the past failed to understand why Kevin Costner should have come under so much criticism for some of his past movies. Waterworld springs to mind which I thought wasn't that bad. Now I understand. I am surprised anybody bothered to learn their lines for this garbage. Come to think of it I don't think they did.<br/><br/>Costner looks like an overstuffed penguin in a rubber suit auditioning for the part of the villain in a new Batman movie. That is about as funny as this movie comes……..What's that, It's meant to be serious!<br/><br/>Best line in the movie:<br/><br/>Question: What,s that? Answer: It's an African Piece. Response: Looks like Egyptian to me.<br/><br/>Slik dialog eh! 3000 MILES was so bad, I didn't have the heart to review it here after first seeing it. As I am looking now at info about Kevin Costner's next flick, THE GUARDIAN, I figured it's finally time to address this turkey. Who in heaven's name could have dreamt this up, and in particular what could costar Kurt Russell have been thinking? Costner is used to being associated with one awful movie after another, but Russell? The only truly bad movies I have ever seen him associated with was TANGO & CASH and VANILLA SKY, and the latter is easy enough to dismiss because he does not have a major role in it. Anyhow, a bunch of self-styled Elvis impersonators come to Vegas to rob a casino, and the aftermath is one big bloody mess. Costner plays the head bad guy who will let no one get in the way of his objective, and he stinks up the screen every second he is on it. Russell is the sympathetic bad guy who wouldn't hurt a soul, and since we already associate him with Elvis, thanks to his classic TV movie ELVIS, we can afford to cut him a little slack. You can imagine where this badly written heist flick ends up. In the crapper. Avoid it at all costs. On the reasonable assumption that no movie featuring an Elvis impersonator can be wholly bad, I was prepared for a high old time at 3000 Miles to Graceland, which exhibits a plenitude of Elvi. The exhibition does not last very long, however. Less than a third of the way through, the filmmakers jettison the premise and trash their own movie.
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