Starring Nicholas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris. Written by Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, directed by Tom Gormican. $30 million. Running time 107 minutes.
Nicholas Cage plays Nicholas Cage in this genuinely very funny and enjoyable uber-meta comedy action adventure. The film sees the fictitious, down on his luck, Nicholas Cage lose out on a big role and grudgingly accept a $1,000,000 job to attend the birthday party of a Spanish billionaire Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal) on his private island.
Nicholas Cage plays Nicholas Cage in this genuinely very funny and enjoyable uber-meta comedy action adventure. The film sees the fictitious, down on his luck, Nicholas Cage lose out on a big role and grudgingly accept a $1,000,000 job to attend the birthday party of a Spanish billionaire Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal) on his private island.
Initially very reluctant to attend, Cage is genuinely won over by Javi who turns out to be a passionate film lover and Nicholas Cage's number one fan. They bond over their love of The Cabinet of Dr. Calgary and Paddington Bear 2 and after one fantastically funny drug-fuelled day-out the two become BFFs! That is until Cage is abducted by two CIA agents who inform him that Javi is actually the head of an international drug cartel, who's abducted the daughter of a Catalonian presidential candidate, and so Cage agrees to help them rescue her.
What follows is a bloody, laugh-out-loud, funny film that succeeds entirely thanks to the wonderful bro-mance between Cage and Pascal, their chemistry is an utter delight and they rift and bounce off each other beautifully. The proceedings are also enhanced not only by the appearance of the Wild at Heart Nicholas Cage who turns up throughout the proceedings to bully the older Cage and snog him when necessary, but also the countless gags and references to Cage's fabulous oeuvre from Mandy to The Rock to name but two!
Sadly the film comes slightly undone in the third act when it takes a trip into the all-too-familiar action adventure territory, but only because we already know the outcome of the film and it feels more like studio interference that doesn't really match the proceedings.
Thoroughly entertaining and genuinely funny. You'll come for Cage but stay for the double act of Cage and Pascal.
8/10
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