Spoilers: CON-tr-AIR-y to Reality

Rating: 8/10 (24 June 2006)

This movie has all the same cartoonish credibility as the Die Hard movies. But if you're a fan of those movies (and I am) and a Nick Cage fan (and I am) then it's a lot of fun.
Cage is the unjustly convicted con with a heart of gold (and a very, very bad...as in poorly acted...Southern accent by the way). As with Bruce Willis, he is magically immune to bullets, bombs, fiery airplanes, exploding helicopters, falling buildings, flying cars, you name it.
It plays on stereotyps of macho man, helpless women, rape fantasies (including a nutcake who wants to rape a woman so much that the world literally crashing in around him can't distract him), a Hannibal Lector clone who seems as if he's going to attack a child but...surprise...is won over by her little gospel song. And oh, by the way, with gigantic explosions all around her she's not afraid of this stranger or the fireballs but just goes on with her little tea party with the pervert.
As I said...just good, clean fun. LOL. Lots of smashing and crashing that is great for a big-screen viewing. Just leave your cynicism at the door.