Director: Tom Gormican. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris. 107 min. Comedy/Action.
- Nicolas Cage is one of those actors with whom people have a love-hate relationship; no in-between (mine is love). My favorite Cage movies, panned by many, have been The Rock and Knowing; and I find his dumbest and most hilarious, loved by many, to be Con-Air. Everybody went crazy over Face/Off (not sure why), and I thought he was the perfect choice to play Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider, even though the movie was horrible. See what I mean?
- In the manner of other actor flagellating movies such as Being John Malkovich and JCVD (satirizing our vision of John Malkovich and Jean-Claude Van Damme, respectively), while playing himself in some sort of cliché adventure movie, Cage bravely and whole-heartedly embraces the above notion. He acknowledges that despite the nepotism that probably helped him launch his career (Francis Ford Coppola is his uncle), he exudes a certain depressing style of weirdness and corniness that makes him unique, and lovable. The movie is a satire of Cage's movie persona, and possibly, his real-life issues. At times watching the movie, it's hard to differentiate the two.
- The ingenuity of the screenplay shows in the very last moments with the appearance of a certain actress. You'll know when you see it.
MoGo's rating: 7/10
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