Review: In ‘Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,’ Nicolas Cage plays himself, with feeling, finding laughs in an empty action-movie plot
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Apr 20, 2022
2 minutes
Now 58, with nearly 100 film credits since he was “Brad’s bud” in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in 1982, Nicolas Cage has handled a lion’s share of money grabs in a career distinguished by a gratifying number of movies worth seeing, often just for him. Good material, bad material, big-budget studio clangers, low-budget indies on wry: The man does not coast.
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