TheUnbearableWeightofMassiveTalent isn't a great meta-comedy about Nicolas Cage's career, but it is a solid buddy comedy with Pedro Pascal.
Nicolas Cage contains multitudes. He’s an Oscar winner who is just as likely to start in a Left Behind reboot as he is to play a version of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He’s a chameleon that can naturally fit into the vision of filmmakers as varied as David Lynch, Werner Herzog, John Woo, Spike Jonze, or the Coen brothers.
At the end of his rope and ready to give up, Cage accepts a $1 million offer to appear at the birthday party of the wealthy superfan and aspiring screenwriter, Javi Gutierrez . Soon after arriving in Spain for Javi’s party, Cage is intercepted by a pair of CIA agents , who tell Cage that Javi is the head of a cartel that has kidnapped a presidential candidate’s daughter. With Cage as their way in, the actor indulges Javi’s filmmaking dreams in order to try and find the kidnapped girl.
It’s clear that director/co-writer Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten are also Cage superfans—as is mostly seen through the eyes of Javi. Through Javi, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent can praise Cage’s performance in Guarding Tess, proclaim Mandy a modern masterpiece, or stare in awe at Cage’s golden guns in Face/Off.
But as one would expect, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent succeeds because of the massive talent at the center of the film. Cage is clearly having a ball reveling in his meme-ability and the grand scope of his career. Cage not only has to reckon with his past choices as an actor, but also with his weaknesses in his personal life. When talking to his agent , Cage talks about how he’s coming back, but “not that we went anywhere.
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