So Cage and his old buddies go and take out anyone who might have made enemies with them in the past, including every sect of organized crime. And the cops, one played by Danny Glover, want Cage's character to go free. They sympathize, despite all of the recent, extra killing. And there's a lot of violence. While I said I can't sympathize with a protagonist who thinks with his trigger finger, I can buy it with this one. Tokarev is a story of revenge and consequences, and everyone pays.
Despite it's obviously contrived premise, I still think this movie is a cut above Cage's other actiony films of the 2010s. The action is just better. The character arch is effective, and everything is bleak and (fairly) immersive. To top it off, Tokarev gives us a true Nicolas Cage freak-out. I admit some of the acting is weak, and some of the scenes look like they're from a bad tv show, but that's never been enough to ruin the experience.
- Raising Arizona
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Red Rock West
- Adaptation
- Pig
- Birdy
- Wild at Heart
- Joe
- National Treasure
- Guarding Tess
- Snake Eyes
- Dog Eat Dog
- Color Out of Space
- Mom and Dad
- World Trade Center
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Zandalee
- Prisoners of the Ghostland
- City of Angels
- Willy's Wonderland
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Bangkok Dangerous
- Drive Angry
- Army of One
- Lord of War
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Matchstick Men
- Vampire's Kiss
- Con Air
- Face/Off
- Trapped in Paradise
- The Boy in Blue
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- Deadfall
- Amos and Andrew
- Moonstruck
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Tokarev
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Knowing
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
- Bringing Out the Dead
- The Family Man
- Stolen
- It Could Happen to You
- 8mm
- The Frozen Ground
- Left Behind
- Pay the Ghost
- Primal
- Grand Isle
- Looking Glass
- Arsenal
- Between Worlds
- Ghost Rider
- Trespass
- The Humanity Bureau
- Next
- The Weather Man
- 211
- Fire Birds
- The Croods
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