Everybody loves Nicolas Cage: the self-proclaimed goth's latest film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent — wherein he plays his unbearably talented self — has done the near-impossible and earned a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
After getting its world premiere this past Saturday (March 12) at SXSW in Austin, TX, the meta action-comedy has gotten a rare 100 percent approval score from critics. The Unbearable Weight has only received 17 reviews as of press time and is bound to take a dip in ratings at some point, but still.
The film's synopsis is as follows: Cage plays Nick Cage, a fictionalized version of himself who is offered $1 million to make an appearance at the birthday party of a superfan (Pedro Pascal) in the midst of a CIA investigation. Cage eventually lands himself as an undercover operative, going down a rabbit hole inspired by previous roles he's played.
The Unbearable Weight is now in contention to enter the epic highs and lows of the running for best movie of all time — a title previously held by Citizen Kane, Paddington 2 and Toy Story 2, among others. It's currently the highest-scoring of all 170 Cage-credited titles in the database.
Hopefully this development offers some consolation to the prolific actor for being rejected by his own uncle Francis Ford Coppola for a role in Godfather: Part III and his harrowing horse incident on the set of Butcher's Crossing.
Now, maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves, but this all begs the question: what's next for Cage? (Real, not fictionalized.) Well, the shortbread enthusiast is apparently "down" to play Eggman in the sequel to Matt Reeves' The Batman and face off against ambient electronic producer Robert Pattinson.
After getting its world premiere this past Saturday (March 12) at SXSW in Austin, TX, the meta action-comedy has gotten a rare 100 percent approval score from critics. The Unbearable Weight has only received 17 reviews as of press time and is bound to take a dip in ratings at some point, but still.
The film's synopsis is as follows: Cage plays Nick Cage, a fictionalized version of himself who is offered $1 million to make an appearance at the birthday party of a superfan (Pedro Pascal) in the midst of a CIA investigation. Cage eventually lands himself as an undercover operative, going down a rabbit hole inspired by previous roles he's played.
The Unbearable Weight is now in contention to enter the epic highs and lows of the running for best movie of all time — a title previously held by Citizen Kane, Paddington 2 and Toy Story 2, among others. It's currently the highest-scoring of all 170 Cage-credited titles in the database.
Hopefully this development offers some consolation to the prolific actor for being rejected by his own uncle Francis Ford Coppola for a role in Godfather: Part III and his harrowing horse incident on the set of Butcher's Crossing.
Now, maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves, but this all begs the question: what's next for Cage? (Real, not fictionalized.) Well, the shortbread enthusiast is apparently "down" to play Eggman in the sequel to Matt Reeves' The Batman and face off against ambient electronic producer Robert Pattinson.
