The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

(6/10 stars)

Finally Paid His Debts

Time to remind the audience that Nicolas Cage is more than a meme, but an Oscar awarded best actor. Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is the perfection summary of Cage’s current stage of career and life.

I’m doubtful with the movie’s approach in combining self salute, out-of-context comedy, espionage operation, duo development, family reunion, and movie-within-a-movie stuff, which entirely messed up the pacing, and pushed the story to the edge of becoming a farce.

However, aside from the plot, Nick Cage is just too charismatic both as an actor and a realistic human being. Comedy is difficult to navigate, but by presenting his overreactive, dramatic self into serious actions, Cage converts the capricious facial and bodily expressions into laughable sequence. Despite the comic words, Cage implies his struggle in the real world: a talented actor who’s remembered solely as “king of bad movies”, who’s drunk in his former glory. Beneath the deep eyes, is a bewildered, yearning, aging man.