A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.
过气演员被一句“Action”唤醒，算是保留了他对这份职业的最后一份执着。
笑死了，年轻的凯奇下巴像个锥子一样。恭喜凯奇终于还清债了。
他是演技炸裂的凯奇，他也被称为烂片之王，他系出名门且才华横溢，他债墙高筑又神经兮兮，这是他以真实身份出演本人的一部非传记电影，若当作是粉丝致敬或爆米花爽片就大错特错，这是一个与千千万万陷入困境的中年一样不得不拼命的戏剧化破局故事。如果你期待为各种经典桥段致敬彩蛋欢呼或想看到巅峰凯奇满血回归，那必然会失望，我个人很喜欢，喜欢凯奇无奈无助又无畏无惧的演出。
本以为凯奇叔儿终于要回归the weather man那种文艺片了，没想到还是拐到枪战去了……
应该算是凯奇近十年最好的电影了吧，相当于凯奇本人参加了一次以自己从影经历为主题的冒险真人秀，其中的自嘲与回顾，挺有味道。
消解演员。
“他又回来了”，“他又没过气过”，“确实”
—— 致敬！！！
凯奇近年来最正式的电影，中年演员的危机，但也并没有那么惊艳，凯奇想要翻盘，必须去演欧洲文艺电影在戛纳获奖，否则跳不出商业片过期演员的魔咒，电影本身就是一部能够看得懂的凯奇好莱坞往事，比昆汀的好莱坞往事要好看，昆汀拍那玩意想走文艺路线，但拍不出老无所依的感觉，结果是画虎不成，观众不知道看什么，一切都像戏中戏的感觉，什么也连贯不起来，而这部好莱坞往事就比较连贯，尽管没拍好莱坞，但是每个点都在说好莱坞曾经的辉煌，这个剧情出了家庭和危机之外的套路，也是好莱坞经典套路，还可以吧。
“有时候生活会阻拦你的爱情。”
三星半吧。感觉整个电影就是卡丁顿熊2的宣传片。凯奇的人生有高光也有低谷，一度是烂片之王，难得走心一次是好事，作为一个三千万投资的电影，算是一部小而美的片子吧。
凯奇粉丝大回馈！当然还是简单的好莱坞过气男星自我和解型故事，外加方便的异国救daughter戏码。单薄且直白，其余全是梗。
创意执行比创意本身差的不少，笑话卖傻的烂梗太多。比较有意思的是特效返老还童的Cage看起来演技也有年轻水平的样子，不知道是不是有给眼睛点亮。
抱有一定期待之后就觉得没那么好看，除了揶揄自己演艺生涯的梗之外，就是中白男的Bromance互相喜欢崇拜基情满满，甚至连那个Little Nic都满是改编剧本的样子，于剧情甚至没太大关系。剧情写到后半部的营救就完全没在补救逻辑上的简单漏洞，就把戏里戏外敷衍地交汇到了英雄迟暮掰回人生一城的反转中，从头到尾这个与自己玩笑对话的电影从来没在精神上走出自己的影子。当然，汤姆克鲁斯还在演美国英雄拯救世界的时候，至少看到了尼古拉斯凯奇将演艺事业改道成Steve Carell和Ben Stiller 一样的喜剧演员的努力。
〖20220608〗如果你喜欢尼古拉斯凯奇，这片子还不错
恭喜凯奇叔还完债可以拍自己想拍的电影了！拿自己开涮真是太拉好感了，不管真假，至少电影里立出的热爱电影的人设太可爱了。
尼古拉斯·传奇//怎么办我只觉得pedro pascal超可爱的！快点来个人跟他搞基！（我觉得oscar issac就不错，可以参考俩人的wired autocomplete interview
挺欢乐的，打破第四面墙的手法，致敬部分诚意满满，结局有点老套……
三星半，多半星给凯奇本人。作为连续多年啃他烂片（以各种奇怪的独立电影为重灾区）的我这个观众而言能再一次看到他主役这种院线喜剧甚是欣慰。成片并没有预期无聊，但只是感觉又多看了一部《憨豆特工》而已，抛去电影里凯奇自我调侃的成分来看它带给我的惊喜甚至还没有《威利游乐园》多。
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