The most 90's film of all time

Rating: 9/10 (6 September 2019)

To anyone out there, good luck trying to make a film anything like this ever again, a cult but also high quality classic of film history (in my personal opinion at least). A stellar cast all delivering performances of their lives despite their seemingly ill fitting placement, Malkovich and Buscemi as serial killers, the latter as a Hannibal Lecter figure, total stroke of genius. It's high octane from start to finish, Cage is likeable once your ears get used to his atrocious accent and the action is perfectly spliced with both moments of humour and an enjoyable concurrent subplot of John Cusack's struggle against his superiors which leads to our explosive final conflict at the air field. Crash landing in the LA strip despite being wildly far fetched is still one of the greatest endings I've ever seen, all scored by a remarkably ill fitting song which somehow gives an operatic value to that closing sequence. Reuniting Cage's family and having a fantastic arc for Buscemi I can't say I've ever been as satisfied when watching a film in my life, total masterpiece