Nicolas Cage has handled a lion’s share of money grabs in a career distinguished by a gratifying number of movies worth seeing, often just for him. Good material, bad material: The man does not coast, writes phillipstribune.
Now 58, with nearly 100 film credits since he was “Brad’s bud” in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in 1982, Nicolas Cage has handled a lion’s share of money grabs in a career distinguished by a gratifying number of movies worth seeing, often just for him. Good material, bad material, big-budget studio clangers, low-budget indies on wry: The man does not coast.
Divorced, with a tenuous, tetchy relationship with a teenage daughter played by Lily Mo Sheen, the movie’s version of Cage has run up a $600,000 tab at a fancy Los Angeles hotel and needs a job. His agent, Fink , comes through with a prospect: For a cool, gallingly easy million, his client is to attend a superrich Cage fan’s birthday party on the island of Mallorca, Spain. There Cage will be the special guest star, required only to small-talk about his career, get some sun and sweat his future.
You could get a good, brash lark out of that premise. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is roughly 38% good, and not brash or satiric enough. The bits that got me laughing had nothing — and I mean— to do with the increasingly dominant action-thriller machinery. My favorite is a sidewinding minute or two with Nick and Javi, tripping on LSD, sitting on a bench staring, paranoid, at two people eating ice cream. It’s a familiar setup: drug-fueled panic leads to a ridiculous outcome.
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