Watching the new action comedy The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent in which Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of , well, Nicolas Cage, I kept thinking that if director Tom Gormican d…
plays a fictionalized version of , well, Nicolas Cage, I kept thinking that if director Tom Gormican didn’t get him to agree to do this film which depends on audience recognition of a genuine action star, he could have easily gone to Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis. They would have been fine fulfilling the amusing premise, but Cage, as he usually does, goes all out, even over the top at times, and gives this the kind of sharp edge only he can.
from his imagination who keeps giving him pep talks on finding the movie star he used to be at that age. “You have to be more strategic, more of a he tells him. It’s very funny, and expertly pulled off but fortunately Gormican keeps it to a minimum or it would get old fast Plotwise the film opens with a movie-within-a-movie to reveal a foreign couple watching an old Cage film and commenting on its star, “Nicolas Cage is fucking incredible” the subtitles read. Then we get a series of vignettes in his Hollywood life as he meets with an a-list director in order to land the kind of dream role no one wants him for anymore, even to the point of showing the guy he can do a great Boston accent, and does so right there in Cage-ian fashion.