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Over the years, the career of actor Nicolas Cage has certainly undergone a peculiar transformation, as he has transitioned from the eccentric stage to the bizarre, troubling phase most fans here and now associate him with. Fans of Cage and tabloids alike know that he is in poor standing with the federal government in terms of taxes. So, that means we, or they, assume, or can guess, the reasons he does some of his more peculiar career choices such as his most recent role in the ‘Left Behind’ trilogy reboot if you could call it one. The truth is, we might be off with the assumptions we are making. A while back, I interviewed an extremely gifted character actor who, during the course of the talk, was in the midst of a series of unremarkable movies. And rather politely, I asked, ‘what is a fantastic actor doing in all this dreck’ because, as far as I knew, there were no tax issues for him. The answer was blunt: he works. He is an actor. And yes, if someone is offering him work and he is free, he takes it. It is easy to forget for a lot of film enthusiasts that, behind the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of opportunities that an actor loses out on.
You are probably beginning to wonder why I am quoting the reasons I am not focusing on discussing the movie at hand. In this instance, your assessment is most likely a hundred percent on the mark. Nick Powell, a stuntman making his foray into directing, gives us ‘Outcast,’ an action movie about idiots and now bronze-era action flicks. We westerners in armor over westerners adieu slices reminds me of the ‘Case of the Hot Middle Easterners.’ There is a caption that tells us where we are, 121st Century ‘The Middle East.’ Either way, it seems like a lack of care. Dreon Petrie and Hayden Christiansen languidly portray warriors who opt into battle against Islamics. For reasons only known to them, they do seem particularly annoyed by all this down with blabber. Cage’s Gallain asks Jacob, a British, with a disreputable quite “Haven’t you had enough of this killing for hypocrite priests.” As they sword fight Jacob says, “You’re not the man you once were,” to which Gallain replies, None of us are.
Emperor of some Asian country is greeting us rather late in the throne room and the cliches just do not stop. A timid, young prince is in the presence of the throne room and is told by the aged emperor to assume leadership, but he blatantly refuses, the citizens will not accept me. Your brother is a great wobber, the aged emperor counters, but… Well, there is always a but. Cue Great Warrior Brother, Shing, who bellows the throne is my birthright, stabs father, and chases baby brother and baby sister. Shing’s minions ambush and imprison baby brother and sister into an inn only for them to be saved by a drunk unknown Western warrior.
Cage does not appear in the picture. No, it is poor Hayden Christensen who portrays the character that is bound to rescue the two helpless Asians from the fierce relative. However, you will not think “poor Hayden Christensen” for too long because his portrayal is so wooden that you will begin to loathe George Lucas yet again. Will Cage show up again? Well, yes, he is bound to, and, unfortunately, Cage does inject his idiosyncratic spirit into the mixture because, for example, he says to Christensen, I should have left you for crow meat. I assume that by this time you are still watching the film, if you have started it, and just like me, you have to watch it maybe because you are professionally obliged to. Aside from demonstrating how a Chinese film fund can impose some astonishingly intricate narrative manipulations into cliched global blockbusters, “Outcast” offers absolutely nothing of any value. Instead of this, there are countless excellent action Films that you could view. Some of them feature Nicolas Cage. You would be in safer hands. Take my word for it.
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