Sympathy for the Devil

Name: Sympathy for the Devil
Genre: Action, Thriller, Horror
Released: July 28, 2023
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Alexis Zollicoffer, Burns Burns, Cameron Lee Price, Danny Tesla, Joel Kinnaman

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Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) | Release Date: July 28, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexis Zollicoffer, Burns Burns, Cameron Lee Price, Danny Tesla, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau, Nancy Good, Nicolas Cage, Oliver McCallum, Rich Hopkins

Summary: After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is at it seems.

Director: Yuval Adler

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Luke Y. Thompson

Jul 28, 2023

Cage may hate that people quote his over-the-top moments out of context, but since this entire movie is one, you can’t really take any of it the wrong way. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jul 25, 2023

Sympathy for the Devil does the two things that every good Nicolas Cage movie must do: It gives him license to be manic, but it also gives him a realistic context in which his mania can delight and surprise. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Jul 24, 2023

Cage chews up every scene he’s in and seems to be having a blast — he’s always over-the-top and never boring to watch, in a film that delivers the goods for those who like him best when he’s just about lost his mind. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jul 24, 2023

Director Yuval Adler taps into the lean story’s Collateral-like intrigue but, outside of Cage’s hair-trigger antics, there is not much surprise here — especially when the filmmaker unveils a twist most will see coming down the road. Read full review

Slashfilm Chris Evangelista

Jul 24, 2023

You can drop Nic Cage in your dull movie all you want, but when you do, you're only getting a memorable Cage performance in an otherwise unmemorable story. I love to watch Cage work. I just wish I didn't have to watch him work under these conditions. Read full review

Steven Scaife

Jul 24, 2023

With copious scenes of Nicolas Cage going buck wild, it can hardly be faulted for failing to give audiences what they want. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jul 28, 2023

I’m really not trying to make a cute play on words by calling Sympathy for the Devil godawful. Read full review

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Ezra80

Jul 31, 2023

Pay the dues

It comes from the less known Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler, who has a few class B movies in his pocket, a mystery thriller. Fright night (a great freaking night, as Nicholas Cage likes to say) under the lights of Las Vegas Starring Joel Kinnaman and Nicholas Cage, who isPay the dues

It comes from the less known Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler, who has a few class B movies in his pocket, a mystery thriller.

Fright night (a great freaking night, as Nicholas Cage likes to say) under the lights of Las Vegas

Starring Joel Kinnaman and Nicholas Cage, who is also producing, we are grabbed from the opening shot music and scenes of a moody typical night in Las Vegas,but you know,what happens in Vegas? As the story follows David,a caring family man (Joel Kinnaman), as he is preparing for the big night of his second child birth,but then gets mysteriously caught in a rough game with an unhinged stranger (Nicholas Cage) with red dyed hair to match the suit that goes with it.

As the unknown passenger switches between the seats from the back one to shotgun, you get the feeling that it's about to come down tonight while the cards start facing up, slowly building up the tension and stress throughout its 90-minute running time.

With the least unnecessary scenes and a good soundtrack, you're treated to a solid performance from Joel while he anxiously struggles to unravel the past as the clock is ticking, and Nicholas Cage's outstanding acting and terrific facial expressions as he throws cheesy but catchy classic lines and shows off with his smooth-ish dance moves and singing, and an awesome Cage Rage moment with his roof-bursting temper. Both of them carry the film to an acceptable direct ending at the moment that the screen is burning with exploding molotovs.

Similar to Michael Mann's Collateral from 2004 in many ways, with a lower budget and vibes like in Ryan Gosling's Drive from 2011.

Sympathy for the Devil delivers a good watch to enjoy while making you wonder: what does the sound of screaming rabbits seem like?… Expand

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