Sympathy For The Devil review: Meet your new Nicolas Cage memes
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
Joel Kinnaman takes Tom Hardy’s place in the Locke-like role of David, driving through the less visually distinctive parts of Las Vegas to get to his wife, in labor again following a recent miscarriage. Almost there, and almost out of gas, he’s stymied when Cage’s devilish interloper invites himself into the back of his car and, after attempting a terrible card trick, pulls a gun and tells David to drive.
he Nightlife,” on a jukebox. He does an impersonation of Edward G. Robinson . He screams in people’s faces. He tells childhood stories about an imaginary sinusitis-inducer named the Mucus Man. And in a moment destined to be memed forever, he loudly and lengthily yells “SIIIIT THE FUUUUUUUCK DOWN!” Cage may hate that people quote his over-the-top moments out of context, but since this entire movie is one, you can’t really take any of it the wrong way.
At this point in the review, you kinda know if you’re down for this trip or not. Suffice it to say if you liked Cage as Dracula inmay even be the best movie about Nicolas Cage leaving Las Vegas, depending on which manifestation of Cage you prefer. For the most part, Adler’s efficient direction beats Mike Figgis’ pretentiousness, though when it comes to movies about drivers forced to ferry around dangerous hitmen, this is nodespite the similar brown tones of the visuals.
The movie is set in and around Las Vegas and was also shot there, but apparently mostly on an indoor Volume-like LED-screen set. It doesn’t show. Sure, there’s a moment near the end where everything catches fire and you may wonder how even libertarian Nevada let them do that outside. But without knowing in advance, you’d never suspect inside-for-outside shooting at work.
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