An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but I was expecting, at least, a mildly entertaining blockbuster. Indeed, basically, you have here the same team which made ‘National Treasure’, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Jon Turteltaub and of course, Nicolas Cage, so at least, I thought it would at least reach this level. Unfortunately, I thought it was terribly underwhelming and yet another disappointing feature starring Nicolas Cage. Nowadays, each new movies starring this guy is another blow to his career and he makes it really difficult to defend him against all those haters. The sad thing is that, this time, at least there was an interesting concept. Seriously, Cage could have given one of his really wacky performances and there were a (very few) moments when you could catch a glimpse of what it could have been (‘I can read minds!’was one of those moments) but it wasn’t meant to be. Indeed, he played the whole thing straight but the rest of the movie was not much better, I’m afraid. I mean, it was well made and the special effects were pretty cool but the story and the characters were terribly generic and I was seriously bored during most of the duration. Honestly, I was rather amazed about how lazy and pedestrian the whole thing was. For Jay Baruchel, it was a missed hat trick, since in 2010 he already had 2 surprise success with ‘She’s Out of My League’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and this movie was supposed to finalize his status of storming talent but guess what? 2 years later we don’t hear much from him anymore and I’m pretty sure this movie is to be blamed. To conclude, even though it wasn’t really awful, it was still pretty damned average and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10