Shaareable Apps (Antoine Dubuc)

While it breaks my heart to attest this way to human frailty, honesty must prevail in writing anything worth your own time. Cage, somewhere along the way, grew up. He lost the absolute self-confidence we so dearly wanted to believe in, and perhaps even experience through him if only fleetingly, and since he hasn't spiritually leveled up to an equally desirable state in his middle age. He plays himself. He's a middle-aged man with doubts who can no longer pull off the debonnaire arrogant self-confidence of past youth. If I hadn't grown up with him, I'd never understood how the man got a role in a movie with Pedro who of course is as good as ever. By himself, without his past to prop him up, Cage is not an actor I find interesting much less awesome. I was somewhat faintly hopeful that towards the end I'd get to see the Great Cage as I knew him, but again, this contrast was never to be. That Cage is gone. As a fellow human, I can offer compassion for the reality of his quite human condition, and I do hope he levels up spiritually one day to a place we can truly be in awe of again. The movie is a fairly simple affair, much like a burger on the way home. Quickly forgotten and leaving you hungry for something with actual substance. Not that Hollywood catered much to substance these past two decades with movies, cartoons actually, aimed squarely at nine years old or adults with an IQ squarely entrenched in the solid upper 80s. Hollywood deserves in my book two stars at best since it's far too afraid to produce movies that actually offer substances lest the woke monsters get all offended. Then again, much of Hollywood actually is woke. I give an additional star since Cage appears honest in his acting. He's playing himself, and he knows the days you remember him by are bygones. It's this incredibly honest nature of the movie that makes it at least get three stars. The day he accepts his imperfections and makes deep peace with them may be the day we get to see a new Cage, more awesome than ever before: especially because he grew out of the common middle age doubts most of us get stuck in. I'll pray for that day, he deserves it.