I think any person who has had to interact, however begrudgingly, with the revenue branch of the US government should begin to feel a tiny sprinkle of compassion for Nicolas Cage. While his publicist has not confirmed or silenced the claim ‘Nicolas Cage is broken and will do anything for a paycheck’ it’s widely accepted that the tax troubles he faced publicly five years ago transformed his work ethic into something far direr. Let us delve into example one: he accepted the lead role in a reboot of the “Left Behind” movies which themselves originate from novels that, if we’re honest, are really wild Christian fantasies pretending to be supporting scripture. But let me not go there as of now. Most importantly, he is voicing countless characters that he should not have had to do which, by now most people know, is the sad reputation of a bankrupted actor who once won an Academy Award for Best Actor. This supposedly claimed The shrill consensus has never heard of the movie “Inchon” either but I digress, as the answer is always there just google it.
Rage is undoubtedly not a remake of Taken but more of a payback thriller, and while other actors might not take to such roles, Nicholas Cage shores up the interests of mediocre genres like ‘schlock’. The reason being even if his performance is not the most outlandish or riveting, his sheer presence amongst the rocks of dull scenery will always supersede dreadfully dull surroundings.“Pete! I’m out of the game, you don’t need to remind me” Cage’s character, Paul, says to a self-explanatory role, Pete. Like with lines of dialogue like that, it only means that the character is going to be pulled back into the game somewhere along the movie. He was a criminal that turned into a building contractor what a perfect job for once a criminal because there’s practically zero corruption in that industry.
Anyway, there’s also a teenage daughter who is described to be the light of his world and a teenage wife as well. Fine, Rachel Nichols who plays the wife isn’t teenage, but she sure looks the part, and considering how the previously mentioned teenage daughter is quite likely to go missing, it’s a safe bet as to how she’ll meet her end because movies of this type don’t feature more than one teenage girl character. Most such movies revolve around men and what they would do if you tried to mess with the teenage girls in their world.
After the disappearance of his child, Paul gets his old criminal pals together, including one played by Michael McGrady, who seems like a buffed-up, trying-to-be-serious Larry the Cable Guy, and Max Ryan aka the poor man’s Titus Welliver. Together, they go off and commit sadistic acts while joking about them, breaking up underground card games, and engaging in other where is she? mischief, eventually starting a gang war without realizing it. All of this outrages a sympathetic cop, played by Danny Glover, and Peter Stormare, a bedridden mobster.
This takes me back to my Sympathy-For-Cage narrative. Nicholas Cage is always the target of harsh criticism for taking up those paycheck roles in his movies, like in “Rage,” which is simply wretched. I found it utterly boring, lifeless, and devoid of any captivating feeling, despite its attempts to put forth an old-school grindhouse exploitation-nihilist twist on the dad-with-action-movie-skills-on-the-rampage template. But, you know, Peter Stormare actually used to work for Ingmar Bergman, and he earns no disapproval for appearing in these sorts of schlock or for downright hamming it up as he is known to do. One of the odd features of these later-day wannabe B-pictures is how they try to appeal to their more, as it were, ‘distinguished’ cast member, which in this instance is best exemplified with Stormare, Glover, and ultimately, Cage getting, in my opinion, undue big dramatic monologue praise. “Not everyone could get out as clean as you could” is one such line filled with hot air that makes absolutely no sense. The only way to get out of “Rage” clean, is to not step into it in the first place.
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