The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Review
What more need be said about Nicolas Cage? The complex movie star has been a fascination of a certain type of moviegoer and the entire internet meme community for decades. His newest film seeks to use the bizarre circumstances of his artistic oeuvre as a meditative treatise on storytelling in general, while also rocketing through a standard-issue action film.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a slightly tongue-in-cheek title for a film about an actor who is often lauded more for his substandard performances than for his great ones. The movie is more than happy to maintain that tone by making non-stop references to the man's career, with little regard to quality.
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The narrative centers around Nic Cage as a fictionalized version of himself. The performance comes across like a sharp take-down of his public persona, occasionally interspersed with some very gentle Leaving Las Vegas-style overindulgence. Cage as Cage finds himself at a crossroads in his career, struggling with landing the right roles and fed up with being told to be more selective. His ex-wife and slightly estranged daughter are far too grounded for his overblown Hollywood self-importance and his obsessive pursuit of fame or mythmaking leads him to neglect them. Cage is egged on at all times by a ghostly version of his former self, who both provides and exemplifies the performer's signature wild antics. On top of all of that, he's in substantial debt, and his only lifeline is a bizarre offer from a mysterious benefactor who offers an immense paycheck to attend his birthday party. With nowhere else to turn, Cage accepts and travels to beautiful Majorca, Spain.
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