With ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ Nicolas Cage Explores Another Outré Nook of Contemporary Cinema
Bolstered by actor Joel Kinnaman, Cage fires on all cylinders from the get-go. Bringing in analogies to other films would spoil this particular broth of madness, murder, and mayhem.

When did Nicolas Cage become, you know, Nicolas Cage? Not the actor who held his own with Cher in “Moonstruck” (1987) or the winner of an Oscar for his performance as an alcoholic screenwriter in “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995); nor am I referring to the action hero of the hugely successful “National Treasure” pictures.
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