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I finally got around to watching this movie.
After about 20 or so minutes, I shut it off in disgust, (before N Cage even showed up).
The plot was weird, the acting so so, settings and props were fine, and:
The hand-to-hand fighting was well choreographed, but also had some massive problems.
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Just a few minutes into the movie there was a massive fight scene. An entire military camp vs. two guys.
That would be fun to watch, except this is in modern times, against what were presented as elite modern military and military-trained forces. Almost all of whom forgot their training and just ran in to fight hand-to-hand. Sometimes with knives, but mostly not.
The good guys would run a bit and the bad guys all seem to drop their rifles, pistols, grenades, and anything with some range, and run in to arms length just to get whooped like the previous 20 guys. Maybe one in 10 took a shot, and all these experts missed what should have been an easy kill.
It really seemed like this movies budget all went to the fight choreographer, and none to the writers.
Also the fight seen went on and on and on and on. It was wayyyy too long, and (even tho the fighting was well done), it got boring. That's when I clicked it off.
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I was also disappointed when I checked and found that Nick Cage wasn't even the lead. That makes me think this is yet another Hollywood bait-and-switch movie, with Cage added so he gets a paycheck and they get a name on the advertisements, but he's not really the star. It would be interesting to find out what Cage's screen time was.
PS: I like a lot of Cages work, but it looks like this isn't a good example.
I like a lot of Cages work, but it looks like this isn't a good example.
I don't buy the common line that Cage is a bad actor. He is not. But he has spent the past 25+ years saying, "Yes" to a lot of movies where he should have said, "A thousand times no!"
And lately it seems as if he has just embraced that and is now making a career out of parodying himself. He and William Shatner should really do a movie together --- or better yet: a TV show! Something with spies and rogue cops and kung fu and Elvis impersonators.
I don't buy the common line that Cage is a bad actor. He is not. But he has spent the past 25+ years saying, "Yes" to a lot of movies where he should have said, "A thousand times no!"
Including Face Off. One of the dumbest I've ever seen. I've never even heard of Jiu Jitsu. But then again, Nick Cage is no longer on my radar....
I don't buy the common line that Cage is a bad actor. He is not. But he has spent the past 25+ years saying, "Yes" to a lot of movies where he should have said, "A thousand times no!"
And lately it seems as if he has just embraced that and is now making a career out of parodying himself. He and William Shatner should really do a movie together --- or better yet: a TV show! Something with spies and rogue cops and kung fu and Elvis impersonators.
EXACTLY right. He did some excellent movies: Gone In Sixty Seconds, National Treasures 1 AND 2 (a sequel just as good as the first - rare!), Next, but none in the last 10 years stand out (except as bad).
EXACTLY right. He did some excellent movies: Gone In Sixty Seconds, National Treasures 1 AND 2 (a sequel just as good as the first - rare!), Next, but none in the last 10 years stand out (except as bad).
The last Cage movie I saw that I actually liked was probably MATCHSTICK MEN, which was good and Cage was good in it.
I still say BIRDY is his best movie --- but I have never met anyone who has even heard of it, much less seen it.
EXACTLY right. He did some excellent movies: Gone In Sixty Seconds, National Treasures 1 AND 2 (a sequel just as good as the first - rare!), Next, but none in the last 10 years stand out (except as bad).
The Cage remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds was an awful, awful movie. And I really wanted to like it.
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Originally Posted by Mark S.
The last Cage movie I saw that I actually liked was probably MATCHSTICK MEN, which was good and Cage was good in it.
I still say BIRDY is his best movie --- but I have never met anyone who has even heard of it, much less seen it.
Matchstick Men was a very good movie. And I LOVED Birdy. I saw that movie when it came to the video store I worked at in the mid 80s. Cage and Modine. Excellent. Look at that, Mark S. We agree again!
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I've never even heard of Jiu Jitsu. But then again, Nick Cage is no longer on my radar....
