). Much of the movie is also about Cage’s inability to connect with his kid, which lends the proceedings both a touching sincerity and a gloss of canned, sitcom-esque conflict. Though it’s a substantial step up from director/co-writer Tom Gormican’s previous film , "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" takes a choppy, half-baked approach to its humor.
Javi Gutierrez' and 'Nicolas Cage' zooming through the mountains of Mallorca, Spain. Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate Pascal has become an expert at locating the boyish neediness beneath adult ambitions. How many other actors could make a request to read their screenplay seem credibly innocent, rather than opportunistic? Cage, meanwhile, does what he’s done so often, even in his low-budget dreck: He punctuates a committed, fully felt performance with expressive actorly flourishes. He knows when to show off and when — as in the movie’s lovely final scene — to pull back.
As a comedy, "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" is pretty pedestrian. As a treatise on the simultaneous ridiculousness and transcendence of movie acting, though, it understands the allure of playing pretend.
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