“Retirement Plan”, filmed in the Cayman Islands, entertains with its proposal of action, suspense and confrontation between gangsters, but the book takes an unnecessary dramatic turn that takes the climax out of the ending.
The prolific Nicolas Cage heads “Retirement Plan”, a quite entertaining action film filmed in the Cayman Islands, specifically in Grand Cayman. It all starts in Miami. A young man chased by the mafia manages to tell his wife to go to safety and protect a valuable pendrive that he stole from his boss. She hates her father, they haven’t had the slightest communication for years, but, for that reason, the old man’s house on the island seems like a safe place to her, and she sends her daughter (and the flash drive) there. . The girl is happy, finally she is going to have a grandfather. And she almost, she almost has two grandparents.
One is his mother’s father. He doesn’t shave, comb his hair or go to the hairdresser, but he is very good at receiving the gangsters as they arrive. It turns out that before he retired the guy was a real killer. The other is a gray-haired, out-of-state man who recites Shakespeare, feels like a Dickens character, and kidnaps the girl., with whom he gets along remarkably well. The truth is, he is another gangster, but from the old guard.
With those elements, Director Tim Brown put together a comedy of black and tender humor at the same time, very original, something that is celebrated. Too bad he also wanted to put in some unpleasant dramatic scenes, more than unnecessary, and an ending with the hero rescuing his family and the big guys taking advantage of it to climb positions. On top of that, the last shot is very bad. It lacked polish (and talent), and the result is just enough to pass the time, taking advantage of the fact that this week tickets have a reduced price.
interpreters, Nicolas Cage, half fat and overacting, Ashley Greene, from “Twilight”, who if she continues like this will soon reach the sunset, the promising babe Thalia Campbell, and Ron Perlman, that big guy with the face of a white monkey from “The Fire War”, “The City of Lost Children”, “The Name of the Rose” and other exceptional films from the ’80s and ’90s. His craft still shines here, and it is a pleasure to meet him again.
Fun fact, this is the third Canadian-Cayman co-production, and Perlman stars in the second, “Baker,” about a baker who must protect his family (the first, with Iggy Pop, is still in the editing room).
“Retirement Plan” (The Retirement Plan, Can-Cay, 2023); Dir.: T. Brown; Int.: N. Cage, R. Perlman, A. Greene.
Source: Ambito
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