THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
I had simply the best time watching Nic Cage’s new film THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT (trailer here) in a movie theater last Friday night. The film is a winding action comedy that stars Cage as a fictionalized version of himself. The plot effectively switches gears a few times in the first thirty minutes, starting with an intense kidnapping, pivoting to depict a down-on-his-luck Cage who can’t seem to adequately communicate with his teenage daughter, and landing with Cage thrown into the world of an international drug lord, the CIA, and sprawling Spanish villas—with a few PADDINGTON 2 references thrown in to boot. While the movie is definitely unhinged at times (in the best way!), I loved that I didn’t know what to expect next at any point. Get a few friends together and go check it out this weekend—I promise you’ll have fun with it.
—Darlene Kenney, Digital Strategist
