Nicholas Cage plays a hyper/self-aware version of himself as a deluded and washed-up actor, failing as a husband and father, who finds himself whisked off to Spain to meet with a wealthy fan/patron Javi who has written a screenplay for him, but who turns out to be hunted by the CIA as a crime boss and thus Cage gets recruited to spy on him and finds himself in a real-life action-movie scenario. If you are a fan of Nicholas Cage's particular unwieldy and enthusiastic style you might enjoy this film, Pedro Pascal seems a little lost as Javi, but the unexpected presence of Sharon Horgan as Cage's acerbic ex-wife adds a little bite. For the most part, however, the film frequently strains to be funny and comes across as smug rather than entertaining and laboured rather than smartly knowing, making it feel like a very long and testing film to sit through.
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