Okay... I did enjoy this movie, but... thinking back on it...
Nic Cage is having money troubles, so fine, he'll take a deal to go to a birthday celebration for a chap in Spain. And while they get along well, there are some problems so...
Hmm... thinking back on the trailer, while you can guess there's more going on than what's in the trailer, I don't want to give any of it away. Not that it's particularly amazing or anything, just that it hasn't been revealed, and I don't need to reveal it here. (Although no doubt other reviewers will.)
But while I did enjoy it, let me say something else about that trailer. The main scene you think of, the big laugh... it can be entirely lifted out of the movie without any real impact. That whole sequence is about getting them to experience something together, but it more comes across as "let's do something wacky for the trailer". There's already enough meta in there that it calls this out itself in many ways, but lampshading doesn't make shading the lamp better.
As for Nic Cage, or rather "Nic Cage", this is as much a character as in any other movie he's in. Yeah, it's weird, but it's only the second movie I've seen this long weekend where a character is referencing their real life selves (Hello Everything, Everywhere, All at Once).
It's all fine, but... eh, it doesn't really stick with you. Good for a laugh, but feel free to wait for this to come to free viewing...
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