There are stars, and then there is Nicolas Cage. And NickCageMovie proves it.
? Because those are as important to Cage's career as those more noted movies. They're the ones that have paid the bills, and they're the ones that Nicolas Cage is belittled about by young Nicky Cage. Both parts are played by ...
The script by director Tom Gormican undoubtedly shows the fingerprints of his cowriter, Kevin Etten, and his tenure on formatbusting TV shows like. There's a playfulness, even giddy silliness, with Nic and Javi goofing around, high as kites, like over-excited schoolboys on a shared sugar rush. Those moments are fun, but they're also part of a subtle tragedy that keys into Cage, and every decision he's made - creative, personal, professional.
Cage is far from the first actor to play himself, but there's a self-critique at play that would make for a suitable double bill with Jean Claude Van Damme's self-castigation inwas a way for the Muscles from Brussels to show that he was more than the two-dimensional action hero. Its defining scene is a monologue in which the star literally levitates out of the story to make observations, and it's a way for him to prove that he can be more than just that guy that does the splits.
This is Cage trying to find himself in all those messy decisions he's made, trying to make amends while accepting and celebrating who he is. Even when the film sporadically becomes formulaic, and fits into a more singular action-comedy groove, it's its own commentary, on the divide between what Cage wants and what the audience wants, and his preparedness to give them what they want. In its final moments,gives Cage a glimpse of what it is he truly wants.
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