Nicolas Cage is an idealistic politician, who as prepared as he thinks he may be, is about to experience the dirty side of politics, dirtier even than the oil spill that that has destroyed the surrounding waters of New Orleans, a cause on which Cage stakes his political future.
A turgid political drama, with a seriously depressing conclusion, that ultimately tells us SPOILER ALERT the only way forward is through compromise. A compromise in the form of becoming a corporate shill for big oil. Yuck.
I mean I get it, this kind of stuff happens all the time in politics, and kudos to a director attempting a more adult narrative in a world of superheroes, dinosaurs and robots that change into cars, but this felt like an election between boredom and depression, and much like the voting public, the viewer is the one getting screwed over.
Nicolas Cage is an idealistic politician, who as prepared as he thinks he may be, is about to experience the dirty side of politics, dirtier even than the oil spill that that has destroyed the surrounding waters of New Orleans, a cause on which Cage stakes his political future.
A turgid political drama, with a seriously depressing conclusion, that ultimately tells us SPOILER ALERT the only way forward is through compromise. A compromise in the form of becoming a corporate shill for big oil. Yuck.
I mean I get it, this kind of stuff happens all the time in politics, and kudos to a director attempting a more adult narrative in a world of superheroes, dinosaurs and robots that change into cars, but this felt like an election between boredom and depression, and much like the voting public, the viewer is the one getting screwed over.
