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Olive magnate Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal) will pay Cage $1 million to attend his birthday bash in Mallorca. Tell the trades it was a tremendous honour to be part of storytelling and myth-making.”īefore he leaves the life, he gets an offer he can’t refuse. We love you, but are going in a different direction.ĭepressed, he decides to leave Hollywood. Producers, scared off by his wild-at-heart reputation, give him the Hollywood kiss off. He’s good, but no one with taste is taking him seriously. He has become the White Claw of serious actors. Once a box office draw, he’s down on his luck, going broke and in need of a big money gig. He brings the weight of that public persona to this movie, making myth out of his own legend of self-indulgence.Ĭage plays Cage as a faded Hollywood prince. Off screen, Cage is a larger-than-life character, an Oscar winner known for his penchant for purchasing dinosaur skulls, tax troubles and wildly uneven cinematic output. There is perfect casting and then there is Nicolas Cage, playing a heightened version of himself in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” a meta new action comedy now playing in theatres. This image released by Lionsgate shows Pedro Pascal, left, and Nicolas Cage in a scene from 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.' (Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate via AP) To Valhǫll! THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT: 3 ½ STARS Having said that, “The Northman” more than delivers on the director’s pure, primal cinematic vision. The storytelling gets bogged down from time to time and Amleth’s frequent vocalizing of his mission mandate-avenge his father, kill his uncle and rescue his mother-gets old after a while. It's not all fun and bloody games, however. It’s ferocious, audacious-check out the showdown at the Gates of Hell-if occasionally unpleasant, stuff.

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It’s full coverage, carefully orchestrated violence that drives home the brutality of the battles. This ain’t Michael Bay’s frantic cut and paste. Eggers amps up the brutality, shooting long scenes in unbroken wide shots that provide full few of the action.

So much violence.Īmleth chews one man’s neck, killing him in memorable, bloodthirsty fashion, and that is before the revenge story comes into play. “The Northman” is based on the Scandinavian legend that influenced William Shakespeare‘s beloved “Hamlet.” It’s a familiar story of payback it's violent, visceral and vengeance-filled, but Eggers’ singular vision, and fondness for pathetic fallacy, ancient symbolism and psychedelia, make it a unique experience.Īnd don’t forget the violence. Eggers seamlessly blends the supernatural and nature until the lines blur into one trippy whole. “Remember for whom you shed your last teardrop,” she says, sending him off on his mission. Her cunning will break their minds.Īmleth’s journey is also a spiritual one, driven by mysticism and the words of a whispering seeress played by Björk. His strength, she says, will break their bodies. “You are still a beast cloaked on man flesh,” she tells him. On the journey he meets Olga of the Birch Forest (Anya Taylor-Joy), a sorceress who becomes his ally and love interest. “I will haunt this farm like a corpse returned from the grave,” he declares. When Amleth learns the purchaser is the man who betrayed his father, he disguises himself as one of the prisoners with a plan to get close to the man who destroyed his life and family, and earn back his honour.

When the would-be prince and his band of berserkers ravage a village, the locals who survived the carnage are sold off as slaves. Adult Amleth is now a fierce warrior with revenge on his mind. He is a child about to enter the line of succession to one day take over from his father, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke).Īn unspeakable act of betrayal interrupts Aurvandill’s plans for the future, forcing Amleth to flee the only home he has ever known, leaving behind his mother Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman). When we first meet Amleth, the Viking warrior prince, played as a teen by Oscar Novak, as a muscle-bound adult by Alexander Skarsgard, it is the year AD 895 somewhere in the North Atlantic.

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His latest, the violent Viking drama “The Northman,” now playing in theatres, has all the hallmarks of Eggers’ work, but despite the inclusion of Old Norse language, mysticism and its occasionally psychedelic tone, it may be his most accessible movie yet. Robert Eggers is an idiosyncratic filmmaker whose previous films, “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” have more in common with silent era movies and formal stage presentation than they do with the blockbusters that rule today’s box office. This image released by Focus Features shows a scene from 'The Northman.' (Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features via AP)

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