How much one loves Nicolas Cage's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, directed by Tom Gormican, will be proportionate to how much one loves Cage, motion pictures and/or Cage's motion pictures.
Cage, as many know, is a member of the Coppola family of moviemakers -- Francis Ford, Sophia, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, etc. etc. Though an Oscar winner for Leaving Las Vegas, Cage is not known for being understated on the screen, and, as his latest film notes, albeit ironically, he seems to be constantly working.
Unbearable Weight (note the title's spoof on "The Unbearable Lightness of Being") finds Cage hoping to score a solid dramatic part in a film that will stretch him, all the while winking at audience members who, no doubt, are aware of Cage's habit of playing (or overplaying) every role he gets. He doesn't do subtle or nuance -- there is no lightness to his being.
Cage's life is a bit of a wreck -- divorcing his wife and estranged from his daughter -- when he gets an offer through his agent, played by Neil Patrick Harris, for a party appearance on Mallorca, hosted by a wealthy fan, Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal), who has a screenplay to peddle.
Sharp viewers will find homages to Cage's movies throughout the picture, which finds him drafted to help CIA agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz) who have targeted Gutierrez as an arms dealer responsible for kidnapping the daughter of a Spanish politician running for president.
It's all bona fide nonsense except for Cage's chemistry with Pascal, which is the real deal; they really put the "bro" in "bromance."
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