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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 47m
  •  (3,243)
  • 68

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Tom Gormican

Producer:

Nicolas Cage, Mike Nilon, Kristin Burr

Writer:

Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten

Release Date:

Apr 22, 2022

Runtime:

1hr 47m

Synopsis

A cash-strapped Nicolas Cage agrees to make a paid appearance at a billionaire super fan's birthday party, but is really an informant for the CIA since the billionaire fan is a drug kingpin and gets cast in a Tarantino movie.

Cast

  • Nicolas Cage
  • Pedro Pascal
  • Tiffany Haddish
  • Sharon Horgan
  • Paco León
  • Neil Patrick Harris
  • Lily Sheen
  • Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Jacob Scipio
  • Katrin Vankova

Atom User Reviews

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Verified Review
#justokay
#boring

Besides Nick Cage looking really good, the movie was watchable, but not a movie you need to see in a theater. I’d wait for it to be streamed. The characters were likable. I thought it would be funnier. However, I only paid $4 thanks to T-Mobile/Atom.

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Metacritic

68
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Based on 52 Critics
7.3

USER SCORE (85)

Generally favorable reviews based on 85 Reviews
40
Apr 21, 2022

There are some entertaining meta-touches here, but the entire Gutierrez plot is strained and borderline dull. Pascal isn’t a natural comic and the movie winds up fudging his crucial bad-guy status.

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Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
54
Apr 18, 2022

A cheap, crass and ruthlessly sloppy skewering of celebrity culture that is barely a millimetre above the material it thinks it is so sharply satirizing, Gormican’s new film is the definition of disappointment.

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Metacritic review by Barry Hertz
Barry Hertz
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
67
Apr 8, 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent—even when it doesn’t entirely work—shows the dedication and greatness of Cage, the impressive breadth of his career, and proves that Cage is, indeed, back. Not that he went anywhere.

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