Meta action comedy has the famiously eccentric Nicholas Cage playing a slightly unhinged version of himself. At a career impasse Cage travels to Spain where he is to be paid one million dollars to attend the birthday part of a rich olive oil magnet with possible mob ties (Pedro Pascal in a fun performance). While there he is recruited by Tiffany Hadish of the CIA to help with the investigation of a politically motivated kidnapping.
At one point Cage and Pascal's characters are working on writing a screenplay together, they decide that it will start as a character study and slowly morph into an action film, "so there will be something for everybody", which is exactly what this film does. So again, meta. This is actually a rather fun film, though as of this writing it has yet to recoup its production cost. Film has the makings of a cult movie about it. ***
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