He’s clearly a lunatic, but also a corrupt one. I guess it’s just hard to get behind a character in this situation when I can’t figure out his motivation.
Unfortunately, that particular charm is thrown away fairly early on, but the movie stays interesting enough to not automatically warrant a full dismissal. Having just officially defeated the year 1997 with both Con-Air and Face/Off releasing in theaters, Cage’s next performance in Snake Eyes starts out as if he’s trying to do a Nicolas Cage impression after not sleeping for three days and taking a bottle of NoDoz. In this, the second installment of my Netflix Nic series, where I watch some Nicolas Cage flicks on Netflix and report my findings, I bring to you a decent offering from the 90s a surprising action/drama with Anakin Skywalker and a movie in which the film stock should have been burned like at the end of Inglourious Basterds.
