Nicolas Cage Hasn’t Lost His Edge
The actor may have retreated from the mainstream, but his latest film is a reminder that he’s always been a magnetic screen presence.
by David Sims
Jul 17, 2021
3 minutes
On the basis of its advertising, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the indie film Pig is nothing more than the latest over-the-top entry in Nicolas Cage’s bewildering Hollywood career. He’s developed from to to to, well, . In this latest work, he’s a shambling, shaggy-haired farmer whose truffle pig is abducted; the makes him out to be some Old MacDonald John Wick, a hirsute avatar of vengeance bursting in on the criminal underworld and grumbling, “Where’s my pig?”
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