'If you love Nicolas Cage, you’ll love this film—and who doesn’t love Nicolas Cage?! The star plays (a heavily fictionalized version of) himself in a script by Kevin Etten and director Tom Gormican.' | nberlat
The star plays himself in a script by Kevin Etten and director Tom Gormican. Together the two faithfully capture both the genius and the frustratingly less-than-genius of Cage’s enormous, enormously spotty screen career.-era Cage and crowing about how awesome he is at smooching; a completely over-the-top wall-climbing-on-acid scene with the equally meta-mugging Pedro Pascal; a tearful viewing of; an underwater beer-drinking sequence—are up there with Cage at his most fully Cage.
The conventional aspects of the script are true to Cage’s workmanlike ethos; he’s never been afraid to appear in completely mundane tripe. It’s always a little disappointing to see him weighed down, though, and his cleaned-up, conventional emotional arc here seems like a missed opportunity.
But that’s the way the filmography goes. The next perfect Cage film may already be in the pipeline, groaning under the unbearable weight of massive talent. For now, you’ll have to settle for this merely intermittently awesome
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