Peter Macejak

Another turd from this writer/director. Improbable premise, predictable plot with well-worn and suspect devices. Don't waste your time; his best work is way behind him. I gave it two stars because of the good music and concert performance. But even that seemed to take up too much of the movie.

I like Nicholas Cage, but I haven't seen his recent work. Anyway, this movie has an interesting if absurd premise. Unfortunately, this appears to go off the rails as the movie progresses. His character generates great sympathy for his predicament before he and the movie loses their grip on reality...which seems to be self-fulfilling. At some point you wonder whether he or the movie is the dream. And all this occurs in an increasingly obvious context of cancel culture. In the end, it takes a turn into start-up company social media vapidity that launches the movie into its final leap, crashing through the Twilight Zone door, landing with a head-scratching thud. (Watched on AZP without knowing anything about it.)