I am always up for a good movie about the caustic incompetence agency. This one offered a different angle, being more about a man suffering an aggressive brain degeneration disease and wanting desperately to avenge his torture from twenty-two years before. One must ask why it took him twenty-two years to develop what overnight becomes an idée fixe, but I guess that was the point of his having this particular brain disease, which causes alterations in judgment and hypersensitivity and overreaction.
Nicolas Cage plays the CIA agent undergoing rapid brain degeneration, and he is pretty convincing. How he finds his aggressor is quite a bit less so. It's another case where only through a major contrivance on the part of the script writer is there even a story here to portray.
When he finally finds himself in a room with the man who tortured him, Cage suddenly changes his mind—apparently also because of his brain disease! But then when a group of goons come after him and end up harming his friend, the former CIA agent suddenly realizes that he must do what he came to do and goes back to kill the guy, which is only accomplished after a bloody and ugly contest between the two.
So, yes, there's some action here, but this production doesn't come close to the Bourne trilogy.
Nicolas Cage plays the CIA agent undergoing rapid brain degeneration, and he is pretty convincing. How he finds his aggressor is quite a bit less so. It's another case where only through a major contrivance on the part of the script writer is there even a story here to portray.
When he finally finds himself in a room with the man who tortured him, Cage suddenly changes his mind—apparently also because of his brain disease! But then when a group of goons come after him and end up harming his friend, the former CIA agent suddenly realizes that he must do what he came to do and goes back to kill the guy, which is only accomplished after a bloody and ugly contest between the two.
So, yes, there's some action here, but this production doesn't come close to the Bourne trilogy.