Mandy (feat. Nicolas Cage)

Do you like heavy metal, sci-fi, and 80s horror? If so, this is the film for you. And it feels more genuine than pandering to its demographic. It feels good. Almost every shot fades to black, and fades in from black. The psychedelic touches don't go too far, turning the film into an incomprehensible mess. Mysteries built in the first half of the movie are resolved in the second half, but getting there is dreadfully slow with an emphasis on Dread.

And then you figure out Mandy is yet another Cage revenge/Cage saves girl movie. Despite Cage's wonderful performance within the powerful flex of director Panos Cosmatos, this is just a fancied-up version of every other Cage film of the era. I really thought there was going to be a stronger sci-fi element, but there wasn't. Despite a wonderfully immersive presentation, Mandy hardly qualifies as a horror film. So with its merits, I will rank it higher than the other Cage's other revenge films. But gosh, I was really hoping for something more original.

  1. Raising Arizona
  2. Leaving Las Vegas
  3. Red Rock West
  4. Adaptation
  5. Pig
  6. Birdy
  7. Wild at Heart
  8. Joe
  9. National Treasure
  10. Guarding Tess
  11. Snake Eyes
  12. Mandy

  13. Dog Eat Dog
  14. Color Out of Space
  15. Mom and Dad
  16. World Trade Center
  17. Peggy Sue Got Married
  18. Zandalee
  19. Prisoners of the Ghostland
  20. City of Angels
  21. Willy's Wonderland
  22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  23. Bangkok Dangerous
  24. Drive Angry
  25. Army of One
  26. Lord of War
  27. Gone in 60 Seconds
  28. Matchstick Men
  29. Vampire's Kiss
  30. Con Air
  31. Face/Off
  32. Trapped in Paradise
  33. The Boy in Blue
  34. Honeymoon in Vegas
  35. Kill Chain
  36. Deadfall
  37. Amos and Andrew
  38. Moonstruck
  39. Tokarev
  40. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  41. Knowing
  42. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  43. Bringing Out the Dead
  44. The Family Man
  45. Stolen
  46. It Could Happen to You
  47. 8mm
  48. The Frozen Ground
  49. Left Behind
  50. A Score to Settle
  51. Pay the Ghost
  52. Primal
  53. Dying of the Light
  54. Grand Isle
  55. Looking Glass
  56. Arsenal
  57. Between Worlds
  58. Ghost Rider
  59. Trespass
  60. The Humanity Bureau
  61. Next
  62. The Weather Man
  63. 211
  64. Fire Birds
  65. The Croods

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