A surprisingly savage bank heist drama that pits Cage against Cage.

Nic Cage is small town cop Mike, on the cusp of retirement (although can you really be a cop about to retire if you don’t utter the immortal ‘I’m too old for this shit’ line?), who becomes embroiled in a crazy western style gun battle when his real life son Weston Cage and Sonny-boy’s fellow crew of ex-military mercs keen for that sweet savings and loan vault pay day.

Cage’s cop partner Steve (Dwayne Cameron) is also his son-in-law, married to Lisa (Sophie Skelton) who doesn’t want to name her soon to arrive child after dear old dad, because he wasn’t their when her mum was dying from cancer or something. I mean clearly this isn’t named for the armed robbery police code, but for the 211 references to Daddy issues peppered throughout the script.

Oh and there is also a random Interpol Agent (Alexandra Dinu) and Michael Rainey Jnr as some poor kid who gets roped into a scared straight style police ride-a-long.

This is pretty stock standard stuff, but it does judiciously apply quite the savage un-alive count, with hostages, cops and crime dropping like flies consistently throughout the run time.

A surprisingly savage bank heist drama that pits Cage against Cage.

Nic Cage is small town cop Mike, on the cusp of retirement (although can you really be a cop about to retire if you don’t utter the immortal ‘I’m too old for this shit’ line?), who becomes embroiled in a crazy western style gun battle when his real life son Weston Cage and Sonny-boy’s fellow crew of ex-military mercs keen for that sweet savings and loan vault pay day.

Cage’s cop partner Steve (Dwayne Cameron) is also his son-in-law, married to Lisa (Sophie Skelton) who doesn’t want to name her soon to arrive child after dear old dad, because he wasn’t their when her mum was dying from cancer or something. I mean clearly this isn’t named for the armed robbery police code, but for the 211 references to Daddy issues peppered throughout the script.

Oh and there is also a random Interpol Agent (Alexandra Dinu) and Michael Rainey Jnr as some poor kid who gets roped into a scared straight style police ride-a-long.

This is pretty stock standard stuff, but it does judiciously apply quite the savage un-alive count, with hostages, cops and crime dropping like flies consistently throughout the run time.

Loved the realistic depiction of cops, hating cameras and violating the 4th amendment

Loved the realistic depiction of cops, hating cameras and violating the 4th amendment

The things I do for the Cager. Never achieves so bad it’s good status, it’s just bad. No memorable Nic Cage character either.

The things I do for the Cager. Never achieves so bad it’s good status, it’s just bad. No memorable Nic Cage character either.

From Dollar tree Bad acting Lazy pacing But interesting story that with Nickolas cage made the movie watchable not something I'll wast my life on again

From Dollar tree Bad acting Lazy pacing But interesting story that with Nickolas cage made the movie watchable not something I'll wast my life on again

Nic Cage at his Direct-to-Video-est. Nothing fun about about this film or really, this Cage performance besides his final line at the end, which is just so awkwardly written that Cage seemed to see the opportunity to Cage it up, that one time, and he took it. "Hey Kenny, where's that phone I always see you messing with, I think we should take some new pics?" The movie intends on it being wholesome, but wow, Cage's hamming it up on delivery makes it sooo weird.

Nic Cage at his Direct-to-Video-est. Nothing fun about about this film or really, this Cage performance besides his final line at the end, which is just so awkwardly written that Cage seemed to see the opportunity to Cage it up, that one time, and he took it. "Hey Kenny, where's that phone I always see you messing with, I think we should take some new pics?" The movie intends on it being wholesome, but wow, Cage's hamming it up on delivery makes it sooo weird.