This was a film I expected to be fun and really enjoy, Yet I found this to be another disappointment. It has good and interesting characters. But for all the great actors in the film they have characters who would be interesting if they really had something to do and fit more into the film.
Nicholas Cage gives a great performance and this film is practically a one man show. As he is a live wire from beginning to end. Now knowing that his character is on legal and illegal medication most of the film. It strikes me as odd that none of his co-workers think that he is on high on illegal substances considering how jumpy he is and always seems to be on. I only wish the film could be as off the wall and entertaining as his performance.
The film is missing interesting scenes and a good story to keep interest up. I guess the lack of these things gives the film and cage more free reign to maneuver. I like the films divergences with the trippy iguana and alligator scenes. But even with that the film lacks Director Herzog’s amazingly surreal images. It lacks his visual appeal. It’s a thriller that never feels suspenseful nor dramatic.
The film feels like a good pilot episode for a warped police TV show, because it sets up character types who you suspect are deeper and richer but are never really explored. So you are presented with just a shell of them.
The screenwriter is a former TV Writer and you can tell because the script is more episodic then anything and most actions seem to happen with little rhyme or reason.
One scene Puzzles me as to why are mobsters always philosophers when threatening people. Yet the film still has some tricks up it’s sleeve to preserve it and save it. Especially when things look like they will be going for a storybook ending.
The actor Xzibit laughs so much in this film as a drug kingpin half the time I just think it is his natural reaction to cage’s performance.
The film is one of Herzog’s recent stabs more into the mainstream genre of cinema this and RESCUE DAWN may be an attempt to make mainstream movies that make money so that he can fund his films that more fit his interests.
The film feels like what I would never describe a Herzog film as dull. It seems small potatoes compared to the things we know he is capable of as a director.
It’s worth watching only for Nicholas Cage’s performance really.
GRADE: C+
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