Film Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

 Genre:  Action, comedy crime

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Tom Gormican

Screenwriter: Tom GormicanKevin Etten

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Sharon Horgan, Paco León, Neil Patrick Harris, Lily Mo Sheen, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Katrin Vankova, Demi Moore, Anna MacDonald, David Gordon Green, Ike Barinholtz many more........ 

Running time: 1h 47m

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: A verbal line of dialogue that's comedically sexual.

A brief verbal non-graphic reference to pornography acting

In the movie, we see an imaginary "Nick Cage" that he talks to as almost a replacement for inner dialogue. About halfway through the movie, he gets very drunk and his imaginary self kisses "himself" for quite some time. The scene is very lengthy but is meant to be played as awkward and for laughs.

Violence & Gore: Comedic mild non-graphic stabbings, gunfire with brief blood splatter, punches, and extended sequences of car chasings

Profanity: Over 60 uses of "fuck". Frequent uses of "shit", "bitch", "asshole", "dick" and "pussy"

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: People are seen high on LSD accidentally

Teens are seen sharing a joint

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Brief threats in scenes of kidnapping, knife threat, and a gun threat that are occasionally uplifted by the comedic humor.

Story: The fictionalized version of Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous super fan Javi Gutierrez. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Nick Cage is recruited by a CIA operative Vivian 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.

Likes: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is it any good? Meh, ok Meh is a little harsh it was an ok film, not great, and not an amazing film it was an ok and watchable movie. The one thing this film does touch on is the state that Hollywood is in right now, and how comic book movies are saturating the big screen which was mentioned, which I actually whole heartily agree with because Hollywood has lost the way it making great movies because they are i'ver pandering to people that don't watch the films or making just trashy films which are hurt Hollywood. 

The film as a whole is like a running joke, where some people say actor away play themself in a film, this movie kind of takes the piss out of that and runs with it, it like a movie, in a movie that making a movie which may seem confusing, but it all pans out and reveal its self toward the end. I will say this Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal had this great buddy cop chemistry together that they should do another movie together as cops because I think they will do well together.

Technically this is all the film is Nicolas cage playing himself having a moment of crisis feeling like his a failed actor, getting told to go on a break to some island where he meets Pedro's character, whine up being in the middle of a CIA operation, which there are some moments of comedy which the audience might find funny, as Cage has to use all his acting skill to stay alive while being astrand from his family.

So if this is a film you think you would like to watch, then, by all means, you might enjoy it. 

Dislikes: I'm not sure if it was the running joke of an actor playing himself, or the comedy just wasn't funny for me that I found this film slightly boring, some of the jokes don't land, the film comes off disjointed, it comes off with too many expedition in certain places which for me this wasn't Nicolas cage's best film. 

Overall: a little boring, running joke of an actor playing himself. 

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 for Entertainment / 6 out of 10 for story