The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

  • Released: 2022-04-20
  • Runtime: 107 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
  • Stars: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, Lily Mo Sheen, Sharon Horgan, Jacob Scipio, Paco León, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Nicholas Wittman, Joanna Bobin, Demi Moore, Mario Perez, David Gordon Green, Anna MacDonald, Luke McQueen, Katrin Vankova, Jaime Ordóñez, Enrique Martínez, Manuel Tallafé, László Szívós, Ricard Balada, Rebecca Finch, Jackson Serafim, Jesus Armando Campos Flores, Christine Grace Szarkó, Caroline Boulton, Paula Parducz, Tamás Buza, Mario Perez, Francisco Grey, Kristian Flores, Björn Freiberg, Eli Jane, Cesare Taurasi
  • Director: Tom Gormican
 Comments
  • jviksh - 30 June 2024
    Spend your time elsewhere
    I dont understand how this could get anything but middle of the tree rating.

    I am not a big Nick Cage fan but some movied referanced in this one is. Far better.

    This is a childs movie for grown ups ? Or somthing. Just does not work. The hogh rTing is the only reason I watched it - in snippets our several days - hoping it would cometo life. Its a middle of the road movie containing some good actors ( badmsef on what they have done elsewhere) but utimately sholud not hav been made.

    If you have nothing else to do there are still loads of other films you should rather watch, including good films you may want to see again. Spend your time elsewhere.

    There is a ton of stuff that is better.
  • draciron - 9 May 2024
    Absolute run and irreverence
    I laughed all through the movie. Would d have rated it higher if the base premise wasn't a knock off of a. Raimi movie. Still it was much better done than Raimi's. Cage is back to acting with this script. No sleep walking through this one, it's his best movie in years. The key supporting roles are great as well. The action stunts work and don't seem like they were tossed in there just to have an explosion or car chase. Still there's that Hollywood taint that keeps the movie from being the classic it could have been. Things get a little too formula at parts in particular, meaning you know what is going to happen and why and when explained in the movie it's redundant as every other Hollywood movie in the last 20 years did the same hook and tricks. Still the premise and original ideas make it through the Hollywood taint allowing this to be a very funny movie.

    Most comedies feel obligated to halt the laughs and create drama or tragedy or something. Not this movie, it actually creates tension without slowing down one bit. While not the funniest movie I've ever seen, this one is one of the funniest in the last decade. I especially love that Nickolas Cage was willing to play an exaggerated self for laughs. It shows humility and makes him quite human. Something few Hollywood stars would dare. I don't think we appreciate Cage as much as we should. Future generations will look back on his career and forget the mistakes and see his audacity and work ethic and appreciate it. This will be one of the movies that cement his legacy. It will be really tough for an actor to top Cage's self portrayal in this movie. Sure Raimi and Hasselhoff did something similar before, but not like this. Any actor portraying themself after this will be held up to Cage's performance in this movie and it'd be really tough to live up to what Cage wrought here.