![]() This seemingly spoiler supernatural figure is relentless in pursuit, yet moves with the speed of a plodding gumshoe when he's not at the wheel of a muscle car or, oh, say, a tank truck filled with liquid hydrogen. On their trail is the enigmatic Accountant ( William Fichtner). Heard makes a plucky heroine who, although Piper's sexy and Milton likes the ladies, doesn't fall into the usual abyss of "love interest" but slugs it out like a cage fighter. Piper inexplicably stays with Milton, despite many questions which are even better than she thinks. You've heard of girls attracted to the wrong kinds of guys? Nic Cage plays a guy here who, if he was a girl, Nic Cage would be afraid of. After inconceivable violence, they link destinies. ![]() There must be a pool of Hollywood extras who play big, bald guys who can take three steps forward and glower into the camera.Īnyway, Milton's quest begins in a bar named Bull by the Balls, where he meets a barmaid named Piper ( Amber Heard). Their ranks are swelled by the usual shaved-headed and tattooed fatsos. Their idea of partying is a topless orgy around a fire in an abandoned prison yard, while swigging Jack Daniels and warming up for a midnight infanticide. The cult is led by Jonah ( Billy Burke), who is obeyed by slavish followers he seems to have recruited from porn movies and guests on Jerry Springer shows about redneck incest. A Satanic cult enslaved and murdered his daughter, and now plans to sacrifice the infant by the light of the full moon. Milton is hell-bent to rescue his baby granddaughter. Here he plays a man named John Milton, a reference I fear will be lost on the film's target audience. He can go over the top so effortlessly he rests up and makes lemonade for everybody. Is there another actor who could or would have dared to sign on? Cage is a good actor in good movies, and an almost indispensable actor in bad ones.
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