Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Actor Nicolas Cage is experiencing a career downswing to the point where his agent (Neil Patrick Harris) is sending him to Spain for a gig for a rich super-fan (Pedro Pascal). A million bucks to spend a few days with a fan? It’s not exactly working with David Gordon Green, but it’ll do. But then a couple of FBI agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz) informs Cage that this super-fan is also an international arms dealer, and they want Cage to be their inside man. The actor is now basically starring in a real-life scenario that sounds like one of his action blockbusters! A mediocre waste of the kernel of a good idea and a game leading man. This 2022 meta-ish movie from director Tom Gormican ( “That Awkward Moment” with Miles Teller) and his co-writer Kevin Etten (an executive story editor on “Desperate Housewives” ) is surprisingly lazy, safe, and massively disappointing. Instead of the Spike Jonze-esque take that could’ve been applied to the premise, Gormican and Etten feel conte...