Oh God. Oh my God.
Yes, squeaky bench time.
There is a chair if you want it.
No, it's way too late for that.
All right. You've sat.
I have sat. All right.
I am in permanent residence.
How you feeling tonight, Nick?
Oh, I feel pretty good.
It's a it's a nice, shiny Tuesday evening.
On a scale of zero percent to 100 percent sex.
Where are we at?
Oh, well, I started this night at 100 percent sex,
but here you've brought me down to 50 percent sex.
Yeah, that is not OK.
Because I suggested you switch chairs.
Yeah. Yeah.
And everybody knows I never switch seats.
It's true. Never never go to a second seat.
Nope. Well, I just don't take orders from anybody.
It's fair. Yeah, I don't either.
And that's why we're here without Peter.
Yeah. Suck it, Peter.
I don't know why he's always complaining about this.
This job seems easy.
Yeah. I mean, we figured it out.
Yeah. Barely needed his help at all.
No, it only took 40 minutes.
Yeah. Which is about as much time as it would take if Peter set up for a guest.
We love you shots fired. Yeah.
And at this audio, bitch, he has our he has the intellectual rights
to our faces. This is bad.
I'm pretty sure I'm just an AI generated like
overweight North American.
There's a lot of people who do look like you. Yeah.
Sucks to be them.
I mean, Nick Cage in this movie kind of looks a little bit like Skinny You.
Yeah, I guess kind of.
And Joel Kinnaman also kind of looks like Skinny You in this movie.
And wait, are you just saying that because they're all white?
Yes. Yeah. OK. That's what I figured.
So we just watched Sympathy for the Devil. Uh huh.
Oh, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sean.
You're my co host, Nick.
Oh, man, that was like nearly a segue.
And you just blew past it.
I know what I'm doing. Good at this.
This is a very special episode of Cage Magical,
one around about meeting Nicolas Cage, where we take 64 Nicolas Cage
movies and face him off until we find out what Nicholas Cage's best film is.
But he just put out a new one.
So we're going to talk about that for about 15 minutes.
But then that's it.
Yeah. Nothing really exciting.
I don't know what you're talking about. That movie was great.
OK. No spoilers then. How about that? That's fine.
We're not going to tell you anything about the movie.
We're just going to tell you that Nicolas Cage had red hair
that matched his red jacket.
Yeah, it was a sick red jacket, a crime jacket even.
Oh, he does have a crime jacket.
This also takes place in Vegas.
So part of the Vegas quadrilogy at this point.
Yeah. Of films we've reviewed that Nicolas Cage is filmed in Vegas.
That was part of and so Kinnaman has a sick goatee.
Yeah. Well, he really looks like a dirty dad.
He is a dirty. He is kind of a dirty dad.
Yeah. Joel Kinnaman's wife is giving birth when the cage takes him hostage
on a little ride about through the Arizona
interstate way system. Yeah.
A tour of the it would be Nevada, Nevada.
That's right. High jinks may or may not have ensued.
Mm hmm. They do.
That's the only reason why you would continue to watch a movie.
Yeah. If people drove with no hijinks, that'd be weird.
Maybe Joel Kinnaman has a past.
Nick Cage seems to think so.
Yeah. So the premise is Nick Cage picks up Joel Kinnaman.
Well, yeah.
When Joel Kinnaman arrives at the hospital, Nick Cage gets in the car
under the assumption that Joel Kinnaman is this person
that did him dirty once upon a time in Boston.
Nick Cage, obviously sporting a very sick Boston accent.
He finally got it.
One of his strongest like he's used it for every other regional like
regionality. And now it's finally, finally time to be from Boston.
He got it. You did it, buddy.
Somebody out there is just writing a movie for that.
They're like, oh, man, Nick Cage does such a sick Boston accent.
I'm going to write a movie just for him to do it.
And it works. I loved it. It worked great.
I am bummed this didn't get a wide release because it truly is
a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it.
Yeah. I can also see why it was real enjoyable.
Didn't get a wide release because it is niche. Yes.
Yeah. I don't know what the budget was on this, but
I mean, it's mainly two guys in a car,
very few location sets, very small cast,
but really kind of dialed in good performances from both
Joel Kinnaman and Nicholas Cage.
And I could not take my eyes off Cage this whole movie.
It wasn't just because of the bright red hair.
No, his performance in this was outstanding.
Oh, yeah. He was dialed in.
I mean, especially coming right off watching Ghost Rider
Spirit of Vengeance.
Like, oh, yeah, you're an actor. Yeah.
And he man, he gets wild in this.
If you like a wild Nick Cage, this is a good good movie.
Yeah. Just really let him settle into it.
Even like up until his very last minutes, like is like the movie
concludes with just crazy ass Nick Cage. Yeah.
It's a ride. Yeah. No.
I mean, not to spoil the ending, I will say the last five minutes
of this film are probably the weakest.
It's not it's not a twist, but something comes out
that I don't think served the larger narrative of the film.
Yeah. The last five minutes of script are just kind of weak.
Yeah. So it could have been a tighter ending.
But you know what? The movie we got is still good.
That's my only critique of the film.
The rest of it, I enjoyed start to finish.
I mean, I'm inclined to agree it had a really good run.
The intensity is like just up there through the whole movie.
Good, good drive.
It never feels like it slows down.
Now, even in the moments when they're not like
actively moving in the car, but like you hit like a location set
or some hang up in the story, the tension continues to build the whole time.
Yeah. Nicholas Cage sings a little song.
And you never know what's going to happen.
Oh, it's it's a good movie.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to watching this again, probably this week
with Josie, because I'm sure she'll want to see it as well.
Yeah. Peter, check this one out.
I think you'll really like it.
There we go. Recommending it to our significant others.
So I love Peter's wife.
I love that baby.
But, you know, that everyone sells would be would be such a cute couple.
You finally got what you wanted, Peter.
We we recorded a tight episode.
Hmm. Mouth noises.
So where are we? Where are we putting this on the bracket?
I mean, I'm inclined to say good, good.
I go good, good on this.
I'm all for good. Good. This was a great movie.
Good Nicholas Cage performance, wild Nicholas Cage performance
and wild Nicholas Cage performance while not being like over the top. No,
but he definitely exists on his own level in this movie.
Like he's a different energy than Joel Kinnaman's character.
Oh, 100 percent.
But it's not in such a way that it breaks the reality of the situation.
It doesn't lessen the tension at all.
No. Good movie, though.
I'd watch it again. I highly recommend it. Yeah.
This I mean, at least, you know, even the Renfield had some, you know,
stuff we could kind of critique, and I don't really have much to critique
about this one.
No, not without really diving into something that could
give away elements of the story.
And this one, just being a thriller and the whole nature of the like
identities.
I mean, we could do a spoiler warning right now and be like, stop listening
if you want to watch this movie and then talk about the ending.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
Watch the film. It's good.
Yeah. Try that out. Yeah.
Try that for once. Yeah.
Watch the movies that we tell you to watch.
We usually warn you against movies.
That's not true. Watch them all suffer with us.
Suffer in silence.
Yell at your neighbor, suffer in silence while yelling at your neighbor.
Hey, Nick, you know, felt 100 percent sex today.
Who's that? Me.
You know why? Tell me.
Old black guy bought me a beer.
Nick and I were at the bar before we watched the movie.
And this gentleman was talking at Nick for about 20 minutes.
I finished my beer and I was going to leave.
It was about the whole hour that I was there, actually. Yeah.
But yeah, I'm getting ready to leave.
And old black guy just goes, buy her another beer.
And we're all looking around because it's just us.
Only dudes in the bar. Only dudes in the bar.
Just talk about me. I felt pretty.
I got a beer out of it.
But he did reiterate.
He was like, yeah, that one, the lady by the lady.
I'm buying the lady a beer.
Yeah, it's pretty fucking great.
Yeah. We'll take it.
Yeah. Thanks, Harold.
I don't think he listens.
So he's 73 years old.
I don't think he doesn't look past 68.
No, not a day past 68.