The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent: A Nicolas Cage film that may have birthed a new genre of cinema.

The unbearable weight of massive talent see's Nicolas Cage embrace the raging narcissist living at the heart of every actor, artist and most of all, writer. Yet with narcissism also comes insecurity, doubt and something we all might feel from time to time, the feeling that our best days may be behind us.

But what should we do about it? About this overwhelming sense that we might be fading into insignificance? Well, If you're Nick Cage, you make an awesome fucking movie that's what! Nothing rehardens the boner for life faster than seizing all that angst and suppressed rage with the world (in particular Hollywood and its bullshit) and channelling it into a character in a movie; in particular one which is based on you, your career, your experience with bullshit and that time you got wrapped up in a plot to illegally influence the democratic voting system of Catalonia. Ok, ok, I might be blurring the lines between fact and fiction, but the point is that there is a truth running through this movie which brings us closer to ourselves and Nicolas Cage than ever before.

Have we stumbled upon a new film genre here? One in which once "mega famous" actors play themselves, advertise their previous works and showcase their current talents all in one package in order to re-establish their statuses as pop culture icons? (And if it all doesn't work out, heroes for hire?) I fucking hope so and if so, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a fantastic flagship for a currently underexplored movie model. I loathe the current remake culture to be honest, but Cage's simultaneous arrogant celebration cum vulnerable confession, is something I can really get behind in this style of movie and is something I would like to see more of. It has the potential to reignite the fire of youth, that passion for cinema, in both the actor and the audience, by using the proper mixture of nostalgia and new age storytelling in a way that could possibly, like Nicolas Cage himself, save cinema from the predictable franchise-filled fuck-fest it's becoming.

I would love to say that Nick and I are close friends but that would be misleading you. At best we don't know each other at all, and at worst? Well…

It's not like I'm a super fan who wishes he could invite Nicolas Cage to his own private island in order to establish not only a kickass movie but a kickass bromance. (By the way, that's basically the plot of this movie.) Ok I am, I even have a movie in mind for Nick to star in, but I don't have an island unfortunately. Our artistic collaboration would be called "Rage Cage", a movie in which Nicolas Cage plays himself as a bare knuckle cage fighter who has to save the world from invading MMA aliens from outer space. Alas, that script will have to wait for another day. After all, I'm not a millionaire mafioso with international connections, I'm just a regular guy. But that doesn't stop me from, like most people, commenting on his work. After all that's all part of the process right, constructive criticism? (Finding criticism in this will be like finding Wally in where's wally).

The Unbearable weight of massive talent is brilliant, but why?

Well if you're a Nicolas Cage fan then it's obvious to say the least; 90 minutes of full on, in your face, Cage mastery. To be quite honest with you, it wasn't long enough.

Oh, but you've been conditioned to believe that Nicholas Cage is a bad actor, who only ever plays himself in every role he has ever acted in? Well I'm here to deblock that shit pipe you call a brain and flush your mind with the sweet taste of Cage until you understand why the next thing you should do after reading this literary nonsense, is sit down and watch: The Unbearable Weight of Massive talent.

If you're already a member of the congregation of the church of Cage, then what the hell are you still doing here? Go and watch the movie! If you're still a sinner and a nonbeliever, then stick with me and allow me to convert you from your wicked ways.

The reason why The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is so good isn't because it has everything: comedy, tragedy, action, friendship, family, a car chase, a shootout, a drug scene, the list goes on. No, It is because it is a self fulfilling prophecy, a film within a film, an examination of love and success and the different ways they are experienced and most importantly, an exhibition of Cage at his finest. If it wasn't for the high production value and the occasional appearance of a freakish looking deep faked Cage called Nicky, a younger, hungrier Cage conjured in moments of doubt; a grotesquely arrogant manifestation projected from his blinding ego like an ideological hologram, one which heckles and shames the older actor back into action whenever weakness or humility is detected. Then I could have mistaken the film for a gritty, well shot documentary; one which begins capturing the collapse of a dying star but quickly becomes the story of its rebirth into a supernova. Although as Nick reminds us in this movie,

"If we get this we'll be back, not that we went anywhere."

That's right, with over a 100 movies to his name, Nicolas Cage has been here the whole time and like revisiting a favourite old place which leaves you questioning why you ever left, Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent reminds you that if you want something done properly you've got to call in a seasoned professional.