(2011) Escaped from the eternal prison with an "iron God-killer," John Milton (Nicolas Cage), "angry with attitude," hunts down three men in a pickup truck - "I swear, she said he was dead" - in Laughter, Colorado - "He's gonna make us pay" - demanding to know where his infant granddaughter has been taken.

On his way to Stillwater Marsh in Louisiana, Milton gets a ride in a '69 Charger from Piper (Amanda Heard), who just quit waitressing ("my whole life has been waitin'") for Fat Lou; they continue on together after she finds her fiancé Frank Raimi (Todd Farmer, who co-wrote the screenplay) diddling another woman and after Milton messes up Frank ("Why does everyone want to hurt me?") for hitting Piper. Sniffing along Milton's trail, the Accountant (William Fichtner) assures us: "In the end they will all be accounted for."

Opening doors to demons and devils, director and co-screenwriter Patrick Lussier has concocted a freaky fun film, which today means lots of gratuitous violence, foul language, and kinky sex. In Loveland, Colorado, Milton's daughter and son-in-law were murdered after she left a Satanic cult under the leadership of Jonah King (Billy Burke); their baby girl is to be sacrificed under a full moon to begin the new world order.

At the Bull by the Balls saloon in Oklahoma, while Piper's having her toenails painted, in the adjacent room Milton's giving another waitress Candy the ride of her life when several members of the cult barge in. Banging dead those who intended to cause coitus interruptus, Milton nevertheless in getting tasered electrifies his plugged-in partner.

Back on the road, chasing after dickless Jonah sporting a soulpatch, Piper says to Milton of the carnage left behind: "Give me one good reason I shouldn't shoot you in the face?"

He replies: "I'm driving." When the Accountant pulls up along side, Milton interrogates his nemesis: "You think you're Loki? You think you're Baron Samedi?" (Loki was the prankster of the Norse gods; Baron Samedi is among the Loa of Haitian Vodou.) Later Milton will ask him if he thinks he's Anubis (in Egyptian mythology the jackal-headed god in charge of determining a soul's final destination) or Wotan (Norse god often identified with Roman Mercury).

With two cops killed - having been led to believe the Account is an FBI agent - the Oklahoma state police are in full pursuit of Milton and the girl. After seeing Milton shot in the face, Piper questions, "How are you still alive?" to which he replies: "We don't have time for this."

When Milton's pal Webster appears with a tow truck, John says: "You heard about my daughter? Then you know why I'm back." The video-feed of the suffering of those one loves, Milton explains, is worse than hellfire.

When the Account says to Milton, "You're not the first to get out," he may be referring to mythic individuals such as Hercules, Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, and Dante guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. The 17th-century English poet John Milton wrote Paradise Lost with its heroic and sympathetic depiction of Satan.

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