Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future.
Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm....
cage churns out another movie with no real publicity apart from his hair, but his does have a lot going for it. For one, he puts in a good performance (which is a rarity now, as he is mostly on autopilot these days) and secondly, the story isn't as complicated as you would expect it to be.
Moore and Biel provide good support, but this is the Nicolas Cage show, putting in a little charm into an otherwise lonely man.
The set pieces can sometimes be surprising or annoying, depending on how it affects the flow of the film, and there are some amusing moments, especially when cage first meets Biel.
If the makers had taken the Phillip K. Dick element from the proceedings, then this could have been more successful, but they had to make it appear to be a serious sci-fi, rather than the hokey ride it is.
See it, without rational thought, and you will enjoy the cleverness of it all.
Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm....
cage churns out another movie with no real publicity apart from his hair, but his does have a lot going for it. For one, he puts in a good performance (which is a rarity now, as he is mostly on autopilot these days) and secondly, the story isn't as complicated as you would expect it to be.
Moore and Biel provide good support, but this is the Nicolas Cage show, putting in a little charm into an otherwise lonely man.
The set pieces can sometimes be surprising or annoying, depending on how it affects the flow of the film, and there are some amusing moments, especially when cage first meets Biel.
If the makers had taken the Phillip K. Dick element from the proceedings, then this could have been more successful, but they had to make it appear to be a serious sci-fi, rather than the hokey ride it is.
See it, without rational thought, and you will enjoy the cleverness of it all.