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b>STARRING: NIC FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKIIIIIIING!!!!! CAGE (THE COPPOLA SAGA)

Nicolas Cage and Larry Charles with this premise should be a match made in heaven. And to both of their credit, the cage is fully unhinged here from beginning to end. The film is him at minimum 90% full Cage-ing. I loved his look of crazy, overhyped, cocaine-fueled gringo. There’s some of Sasha Baron Cohen's irreverent vibe in his performance, and the way everything is shot does stick to a lot of that style of filmmaking, especially The Dictator, where it’s not entirely docu-style, more cinematic, but there’s subtle, more loose camerawork and overall performance. Not sure if that makes sense?

Unfortunately, while I liked Draft Day with Costner, I am not sure…

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I used to be pissed about the fact that Nic Cage hasn't been in anything good the last 10 or so years, but fucking by God. If he wants to do Shit like this until eternity, let him.

He will never stop being fantastic at anything he puts his mind to. He elevates all Shit material flung his way. And I love it.

The only consistently entertaining Coppola out there, few people have brought joy to the world like this man right here.

Never stop being Cage, Cage.

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This is just embarrassing

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Featuring one of the most entertainingly daffy performances from the legendary Nicolas Cage (and that says a lot), Army of One makes for a bizarre yet often very amusing comedy from director Larry Charles.

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This is Nicolas Cage knocking about Pakistan with a samurai sword looking for Bin Laden, smoking hash and hallucinating Russell Brand as God because he's abandoned his dialysis schedule, what more can I say?

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When this wretched year of our Lord 2016 mercifully comes to a close later this month...I truly believe one scene from a film will stand head and shoulders above the rest: Nicolas Kim Coppola Cage (fully engorged in fear and stupidity) jolting up from his hotel bed and flailing a samurai sword at a Pakistani prayer buzzer while screaming "Try it motherfucker!"

Thank you Larry Charles ...I needed a good laugh today.

What a warped piece of pop trash!

Larry Charles has led me to believe (probably not falsely) that this is how the rest of the world sees us now...as an incensed pony-tailed, cartoon-voiced, aging Con Air Cage...fumbling around in the dark with some high grade hash in one hand…

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“Does the bearded one go to Denny’s?”

Holy fuck the movie got meta in the best possible way just for a single line of dialogue near the end. It warmed my heart. This film is absolutely batshit crazy. They wisely gave Nic Cage the permission to do his thing and get completely unCaged. What a performance!!! I can’t even, he surprises me over and over just when I thought I’ve seen it all. 

This is hilarious, heartfelt, and so engaging. Russell Brand is pretty great and I’m not the biggest Brand fan so that’s saying a lot. When the credits rolled I saw who directed this, Larry Charles, then it all made sense. He is the director of Borat, Brüno,…

Review by Ave ★★★

Might be a film about a lovably oblivious Nic Cage character finding his purpose in the world amidst a mid-life crisis.

...Or it's a film (a commentary?) about an overly patriotic, weapon-loving crazy man with power from publicity who claims he's on a mission from God to end terrorism with his own hands.

Don't forget to vote in a few days, everybody!

Review by themozzfather ★★½

Days of Cage

Army of One ist ein Film, der so verrückt ist, dass nur Nicolas Cage ihn tragen kann – und das tut er auf seine einzigartige, chaotische Weise. Als exzentrischer Durchschnittsami, der glaubt, Gott hätte ihn beauftragt, Osama Bin Laden zu fangen, schwankt der Film zwischen schräger Komödie und kompletter Absurdität und schon echt Banane. Cages überdrehtes Spiel ist zugleich der größte Pluspunkt und Minuspunkt des Films: Man kann einfach nicht wegsehen, aber manchmal wünscht man sich, man könnte.
Gibt schon auch einiges Ärgerliches, beispielsweise einen Voice-Over Narrater direkt aus der Hölle. Der Plot ist auch eher träge und zusammengestückelt. Es steht und fällt Alles mit The Cage. Kann auch jeden verstehen, dem das hirnlose Geschwafel von Cages…

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At least this time around no one can accuse Nicholas Cage of not trying. He's a whole different brand of eccentric and even though it gets old after a while for the first half hour it's pretty fascinating. Cage's patriotic, egotistical, xenophobic character is visited by God in all his Russell Brand glory and instructed to take down Bin Laden all on his own. Y'know, 'cause.

What makes Army of One more watchable than this years insufferable heist snoozer The Trust is the inclusion of Wendi McLendon-Covey and Cage doing something completely different yet still delivering a performance that can only be described as... Cage-like.

"Holy shit!"
"Yes, I take a holy shit every day."
"God???"

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I can't believe how overlooked this movie is. It's less a formal comedy than it is a cringefest, which is no surprise given director Larry Clark's long history with Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's better and less gimmicky than his other films, in my opinion. The real life basis is injected with a crazy, over-the-top energy through the approach to its protagonist, a lonely idiot who constantly pontificates about America's supremacy and hallucinates that God charges him to find and capture Osama bin Laden. He's actually a bit of a sweetheart, though his preoccupation with his holy mission nearly comes at the cost of his few personally significant relationships. Whether or not the film is successful as a microcosm of American foreign policy ridiculousness is less clear than its overall entertainment value. Quite enjoyable, and a must-see for Nic Cage enthusiasts.