The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Reviews

It’s an easy watch – even a mostly enjoyable one, thanks to the great time Cage and Pascal are clearly having...

...a film that puts him in the uncomfortable position of having to play a lightly truthful, but mostly fictionalized version of himself.

...is truly funny, riffing on obscure nuggets in Cage's filmography (Guarding Tess, anyone?) and also creating generally wacky humor. This may not be the "real" Nick Cage, but he's awfully fun to be around.

...the filmmakers craft a metanarrative that also explores the relationship between the actor and his on screen persona through the lens of the ever shifting goals of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking.

It’s one of the funniest movies of the year.

It’s infectious, funny, and madcap — a brilliant dose of comedic egotism and sobering humility. Cage and Pascal have terrific chemistry together.

...this is an emotional, engaging, funny, riveting film.

...will leave you with one question: What would the Nic Cage in the audience, watching Nic Cage watching Nic Cage playing Nic Cage, think of all this?

Come for the industry satire, stay for the endearingly goofy buddy movie.

...Cage, so great and unexpectedly subdued in last year's small-scale indie drama Pig, has a ball with his own myth-making...

A big, silly, scrappy bundle of fun, packed with Cage-related Easter eggs and in-jokes, but also a whole lotta heart.

...a loopy fourth-wall-shattering goof whose showily meta premise is mostly cover for a sweet and surprisingly conventional action-comedy.

...becomes less a commentary on Hollywood stardom than a reminder of how Cage truly is a movie star...