Three Days to Vegas (2007) User Reviews

More lack of focus than bad movie.

[f-ascaso · 6/10 · 28 July 2008]

I kind of liked it, expected a lot more though from the veteran actors though. Denis Farina would have rounded this movie up nicely if they could have gotten him for it.

The premise of the movie kind of kills it, it should have been a much smaller subplot, I think that most are fans of the familiar older actors and could have care less and done without the rapper, marriage, homo Thelma & Louis, and other distracting subplots. These seemed like deliberate filler more than plot vehicles.

The "Thelma and Louis" sub plot did have it moments, but it needed a better tie in to the main plot. These divergent tangents fragmented the movie a bit much and reminded me more of a sequence of skits than a cohesive story experience.

Fratboy Geriatrics

[intelearts · 5/10 · 22 April 2008]

Four old guys hire a bus to go and save one of their daughters from getting married to the wrong guy in Vegas and on the way they prove they can still party-hearty.

The Bucket List it ain't - but with the likes of Rip Torn, George Segal, Peter Falk, and the wonderful Bill Cobbs it is what it is: a no-brain required college road trip but instead of the 20 year old it's the 70 year olds.

The plot about the marriage is paper thin, and all too silly, as is how they lose their bus driver and that subsequent story line, but overall it's kind of fun.

Not sure who this was aimed at: old guys, young guys, it ain't family viewing, but I was surprised that I did enjoy most of it: the charm of the group shines through.

Watchable when you don't need to think and just want to relax...

Entertaining But Dull!

[Sylviastel · 6/10 · 25 January 2012]

Okay, they have a great cast here with Peter Falk playing a golf retired man whose daughter is getting married to a Frenchman. He doesn't like her fiancé but prefers her ex-boyfriend Billy who he hangs out with on the golf course in Florida with his buddies played by Bill Cobbs, Rip Torn, and George Segal. The cast is solid but the writing needs an overhaul. While it's an entertaining film, there are some laughs along the way from Florida to Las Vegas like how they got rid of Taylor Negron (their bus driver) and Mario Cantone in the Deep South. That led to a Thelma and Louise and Bonnie and Clyde without being terrified or horrified by their crimes even their victims appeared unaffected by the robberies. Anyway, the film is okay and it has a predictable ending.

Shameful waste of talent.....

[merklekranz · 3/10 · 30 July 2008]

If you have beloved actors, Peter Falk, Rip Torn, George Segal, and Bill Cobbs, you don't need Billy Burke, Coolio, or any other distractions. Massive talent is totally wasted in "Three Days to Vegas", with the blame falling squarely on the script. My neighbor's vacation films are about as interesting as this misguided road movie. If you want to see how to utilize a veteran cast with a good script, check out "The Crew". There really are no redeeming factors here, and watching these wonderful actors struggling with such weak material is a crime. I wanted to like it, but the shallow script cheats the audience, by essentially giving the actors nothing to work with. - MERK

4 Geriatrics, Countless Naked Girls, and Huge Bilge in Between !

[elshikh4 · 16 May 2009]

The worst movie for (Peter Falk) yet. Or rather the worst movie for anyone who participated in it. I couldn't believe how these fine actors made such a disgrace to their names, I couldn't believe this movie's amount of silliness, and I couldn't believe the clumsy way it dealt with its treasures!

Originally, the idea of 4 old men on a mission, on the road, is fabulous. But this script, along with this directing, not only wasted it all, but presented what wasn't even convincing to follow. The characters themselves are boring; (Rip Torn) is drunken, (George Segal) is windbag, (Bill Cobbs) is Hmmm.. the sax player!, and (Peter Falk) is the father of the bride, and that's - sorrowfully - it! Incredibly it didn't give us more, or utilize that itself to make comedy. The situations are so unfunny. It got one of the driest sense of humor I've ever seen, and you'd wonder all along: "Comedy? What Comedy?". There is a snapshot in which we witness the quartet just laughing in the bus, you have to ask yourself: "What did they laugh about?!", simply the sluggish script didn't fatigue itself to invent a good joke to be said, or to relate us to these guys' talking, or to make memorable anything out of them in the first place!

By the way, hadn't occurred to you the question about how this rapper was happily married with kids, while living among bimbos all the time?! Or if that wretch bum, (Billy Burke), is that genius in the field of recording, or rather sound engineering, why he didn't work earlier?! Or how this very character "planned the whole thing" as (Falk) says at the end?! Or how awful the homo Thelma & Louis's subplot - and actors - seemed, how easy everything had been solved with the wealth of the rapper nephew, and how they got the nerve to release THIS cinematically?! I have no idea!

Director (Mharlie Picerni), who's originally a stunt man since the early 1960s, thought mistakenly that he was making a rap music video. So, in great loyalty, he shot the whole thing with snapshots, girls in swimsuits, and an ACTUAL rap singing! In terms of that, (Picerni) kept cramming naked girls, every 5 minutes on the screen, till that became the point!

I felt real anger with it, because I adore these old-buddy movies. I pursue this kind, and enjoy its difference. I have a list of them, and it's not long as basically these movies are rare to make. So with mostly 4 elderly men in action, there were: (The Wild Geese - 1978), (The Sea Wolves - 1980), (Ghost Story - 1981), then the next wave (The Crew - 2000), (Space Cowboys - 2000), or even a girlie version like the made for TV (These Old Broads - 2001). Whatever the genres, the stars, or the quality, (Three Days to Vegas) will be in the bottom of this list, without one iota of doubt.

While he's one of my favorites, I'm mad at (Peter Falk). Although it has a great deal of vitality, and boldness, to be the lead of a movie at the age of 80 (yes, he was 80-year-old at the moment!), but he looked like an idiot for most of the time, missing his old wittiness, longing for the chance - any chance - to star a movie at that age, where he really did nothing but partying all the time, being amongst scantily-clad extra girls; as if he was assuring a point of view said by his character in one scene about (George Segal)'s manners with the strippers: "He could do this, or he could be dead out of oldness!". However, to tell you the truth, nothing was deader than this movie itself!

I wanted this to be funny so bad

[cashman1955 · 2/10 · 21 March 2011]

Certainly somewhere there are some people who invested money into the making and marketing of this movie.

Was it made for TV or was it a direct to video? Certainly no one at any time could picture this on the big screen at even the trashiest mega plex in southern California.

I bought it for $4.00, new at Barnes and Noble.

I sort of enjoyed Rip Torn, sort of.

And actually George Seagal, who I went in not liking at all.

It's just terrible.

I'll sell my copy for a dollar.

You pay the shipping.

A complete and utter mess

[dreamerlives · 1/10 · 6 January 2010]

One of the worst films ever. Not funny, poor TV style cinematography, bad acting. Sad to see so many famous old actors barely able to walk, let alone act. Lead female Nancy Young can't act. Terrible direction. Sub-par with bad TV movies. Occasional weak jokes fall flat. Even the basic premise of the movie makes no sense. Somehow they are supposed to stop a wedding from happening but there's no logic behind their actions. Slow pacing made my wife stop watching but I suffered through it. The old men are supposed to be acting like they are young and horny, but it comes off as pathetic instead of funny. How did they even get the money to make this?

Like 'Wild Hogs,' only older and less interesting.

[Shattered_Wake · 6/10 · 14 July 2008]

After a father (Peter Falk, 'Columbo') finds out his daughter (Nancy Young) is marrying a man (Chris Diamantopoulos) he doesn't think is right for her, he gathers his friends (Rip Torn, George Segal, and Bill Cobbs) and his daughter's ex-boyfriend (Billy Burke) in a party bus and heads for Vegas to stop the wedding. Along the way, the group hits Miami for some Salsa and N'Orleans to meet Marvin's (Cobb) rap-star nephew (played by Coolio). From there, the gang is hooked up with a private jet for Vegas. Will they make it on time? Will it matter?

I'll start by saying that 'Three Days to Vegas' is not an unenjoyable film, and if you're a fan of the cast, you might enjoy it. Peter Falk, though his peak was before I was even born, has always been one of my favourite actors. The main cast (read as 'older' cast) all did great jobs, but the sub-plot stars (like the robbers) and Flow (Coolio) weren't very good at all. Speaking of robbers, what was the point of including that? It wasn't necessary and was just plain stupid.

But, hey, I had fun and the cast seemed to as well. Especially Rip Torn in Sapphire.

Final verdict: 5.5/10. Nothing special, but not a regrettable watch.