NOW IN THEATERS! Tim Brown’s motion thriller, The Retirement Plan, positively falls within the class of popcorn motion pictures—a lot of motion and plenty of Nic Cage.
Ashley (Ashley Greene) and her husband, Jimmy (Jordan Johnson-Hinds), are in large bother. Always searching for a giant break in life, Jimmy steals a tough drive with useful data that crime lord Donnie (Jackie Earle Haley) is sworn to guard. The downside is Donnie works for an much more harmful mob boss, who in flip works for somebody increased up…like actual excessive.
Realizing they’re in bother, Ashley hides the onerous drive in her daughter Sarah’s (Thalia Campbell) backpack and places her on a airplane to stick with her estranged father Matt (Nicolas Cage)…or is it Jim?
Meanwhile, Ashley and Jimmy have been pinched by Donnie, who realizes that Sarah has the onerous drive. He tells Ashley she is going to go along with his goon Bobo (Ron Perlman) and retrieve the onerous drive, or poor Jimmy dies. The downside for Donnie is that Matt (or Jim) as soon as labored covert ops for the federal government, possesses a selected set of expertise, and is owed just a few favors from his former superiors.
“…Jimmy steals a tough drive with useful data that crime lord Donnie is sworn to guard.”
Let’s be actual! This is a Nic Cage car. We’re right here to see Cage in motion, and like every part else he does, this can be a very completely different expertise. The one factor that surprises you is that, not like his characters in Con-Air, The Pig, Renfield, or Willy’s Wonderland, Nic performs the position fairly straight…as if it was Nic Cage and possessed mentioned expertise.
The movie is about household. He is a little bit of a wisecracker, which performs into the truth that his character was a horrible dad. Matt wants to appreciate that he’s a grandfather now and that he was by no means round for Ashley all her life, which in the end led her to a lifetime of scams and different crimes. The soul of the movie is available in Matt mending his relationship with Ashley, forging a really completely different one with Sarah, and defending them in any respect prices.
Overall, The Retirement Plan falls within the comedic, crime thriller style. Not solely is Nic a bit excessive but in addition Jackie Earle Haley, who offers an aggressive efficiency as crime boss Donnie with a mood downside. There’s nothing understated about Donnie in any respect. Ron Perlman is the loveable hitman who varieties a bond with Sarah (when he kidnaps her)—very harking back to the Baker.
This is an motion movie, and the enjoyable is within the motion. Cage will get to point out off his particular expertise with distinctive bits of punctuation after every kill—a lot of chases, gun performs, and hand-to-hand preventing. I feel the one disappointment you’ll really feel is that every part is completed for comedic impact. The Retirement Plan is far lighter in tone than you in all probability need it to be.
With The Retirement Plan, we’re not precisely altering the world right here. We’re shopping for the popcorn and going alongside for a really wild journey. It’s a little bit of a departure from what we anticipate from Nic Cage, however enjoyable nonetheless.
