![]() ![]() They gel well, and the film is stronger when they share the frame than when it’s dabbling in Clouseau-esque slapstick (Cage’s first foray into spycraft) or letting the bullets fly and the cars crash.Let us assert that Nicolas Cage is at his most essential when you either love him or hate him. While Cage leans into his amplified, unfiltered persona (“I should always trust my shamanistic instincts as a thespian!”), Pascal nimbly balances an appealing, starry-eyed guilelessness with underlying shades of threat. ![]() The real double act here is not Nick and Nicky (in fact, Gormican wisely holds back on the showy inner dialogues), but Cage and Pascal, as two guys from very different worlds who form an improbable bond amid high-stakes circumstances. However, while the overarching plot knowingly pings between the Cagey extremes of adult, character-driven drama and cojone-swinging action bombast, what really emerges is a surprisingly sweet and affecting buddy comedy. The real double act here is not Nick and Nicky, but Cage and Pascal.īut what lies beyond the film’s central self-efface/off conceit? You’d be forgiven for expecting a bit of an indulgent binge, with little more to offer than the first-world-problem tussle between Cage’s fragile worth as an “actor” and his diminishing stature as “a movie star”.
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