I try to get around to seeing films I either have never seen, or haven’t seen in a while.

This week I got around to seeing the Nick Cage film that I heard was good, and found out was awesome.

This film was surprising good. I was not aware Scorsese directed this.

It starts Nick Cage as a paramedic who hasn’t saved anyone in months and the ghosts of the people he hasn’t saved are starting to get to him. It takes place over a weekend which he runs the night shift from 9-6. During which he drives with his partners John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. He also chats with Patricia Arquette, who is the daughter of a dying man he brought in. This film shows the depravity of late night NY, the chaos of a hospital waiting room, and the stress the medical facility goes through dealing with drug users and their withdraw-insanity. I highly recommend this.

5 out of 5

This really proves that Nick Cage is a good actor, but it needs to be in “weird” films. Action films aren’t his, but Matchstick Men, Lord of War, Port of Call New Orleans, and this, show that the stranger and off-beat the movie, the better the Cage.