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...Nick Cage was both creepy and havinga really bad hair day...

Ok, well, the first thing I have to say here is that in this movie Nick Cage (one of my favorite actors) was both creepy and having a really bad hair day. Now, don't get me wrong. I love Nicholas Cage. Usually he's mmmm mmm yummy. I like the fact that he's a little neurotic and it comes out in most of his films. I understand also that he's not a young guy anymore. He's going bald and he needs to accept it and move on. Growing out hair in the back when your hair is thinning ( or almost gone ) in the front is really a bad move style-wise.

I mean really, just ... eww.

Other than that and then end (which I'll get to... give me time) it was good.

The movie starts out with Nick's character...Cris Johnson doing a magic act in Vegas. He's being intently watched by this lady. We'll come back to her later.

So he gets a volunteer up on stage, and makes her necklace fall off into her cup. Then they do some back story about how he likes to gamble a little because he doesn't make much money in the show. He tells us how he can see two minutes into his own future. He tries not to make a lot of money at once, because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself. He wants to be able to keep coming back.

As he's sitting at a table playing some game. Blackjack? He's being watched by some of the boys from the casino. They're talking about him and the fact that he's so "lucky" - not exactly how they put it, but I can't really remember now, sorry.

While they are watching him, he looks up at the camera and that spooks them out. He starts to leave when he realizes they are coming after him. He makes a series of really slick moves, ducking, moving, sliding just out of the way, then steals a car and gets away.

He goes back to a garage and plays some pool with a guy who looks like he might be his dad(?), and tells him he stole the car.

Back at the casino, the guys who were after him are getting visited by the FBI. They're looking for Cris. Lo and behold - it's the redheaded lady from the magic show. She's looking for him in earnest now. She's found out about him and knows he's psychic. She convinces the casino guys that they should help her, and not talk about what they were there for.

She then leaves to go find Cris.

Back at the garage, Cris realizes that someones coming for him and that it was not going to be a fun conversation. He talks about some girl that should be waiting for him in a restaurant at around nine. He thinks she's special because he's never seen that far into the future. He knows what time, but not AM or PM and not what day.

After deciding that he doesn't want to talk to the FBI lady, he takes off. She arrives - missing him by mere moments.

While she's doing that, the casino guy is getting his throat cut by the bad guys in the movie. They want information on Cris too. They'd been watching the feds, and saw that they were looking for him. They figure that since the feds want him, they should want him too.

After narrowly missing the feds back at the garage, we next find Cris sitting in a diner drinking a martini. He keeps looking out the window waiting for his vision-girl to come in. ... And she does.

Liz Cooper (Jessica Biel) is a hottie. She looks to be about 1/3 Cage's age, but hey, what does that matter these days? He goes through a lot of scenarios in his head, with different outcomes, ending in the one where he gets hit by her ex, and talks to her. He lies and says he's trying to get to Flagstaff and his car got broken, so she agrees to let him ride with her, because that's where she's going.

She says at the first sign of creepy she's dropping him to the curb. As far as I'm concerned, he's already creepy at this point.

So they go to Flagstaff, along the way there are a few stops. Including one where they have sex. The FBI catches up to him, and he helps them because Liz gets taken by the bad guys.

The end is kind of a let down, cause it's like they cut half the movie. I won't tell you exactly what happened, because I don't want to spoil it for you.

My take on this is that Cage was creepy and had bad hair. He could have at least done this:
Or this:



Or at least this:



All in all this movie would not be worth owning. Go to McDonald's and get it from the Redbox for a dollar.

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...He has pictures of himself everywhere...

Well, I saw two movies yesterday while I was recuperating. I saw The GamePlan and Next. They were both good movies, I thought. I'm going to do The GamePlan today and Next tomorrow.

In The GamePlan, Rock's character (Joe Kingman) is a big football star in Boston. He is very self-centered and selfish. He has pictures of himself everywhere. He lives in a small apartment with his dog and he parties alot.

Well, then a little girl shows up on his doorstep. She's his daughter Payton, she says. He asks for proof and she gives it to him. She said also that her mom was in Africa and her aunt is dead. He takes her on her word and keeps her for the amount of time the kid says her mom would be gone.

Turns out that Peyton was making stuff up, and she was in contact with "her mom" the whole time. More on that in a minute though.

Rock's character (Joe) takes her to ballet class, and meets her teacher. She's a nice lady that has the kid's best interest at heart, unlike Joe. She makes Joe dance ballet and be a tree in their play type thing. ((What do you call that in ballet, a show??)) He then realizes that ballet is hard work. He also realizes that he likes the teacher.

They end up together'ish in the end. Then the little girl has a reaction to some dessert, since she's allergic to nuts and there were nuts in it. Joe literally runs to the hospital from the restaurant they're in and saves her.

*Spoiler alert*

The "mom" ends up being the dead aunt, and it turns out the mom is the one who's actually dead. She doesn't think Joe is a very responsible dad, and wants to take the kid. The kid overhears a conversation Joe's agent was having on the phone. Where this was going to ruin his career and then tells her dad that she'd rather live with Aunt Karen.

They leave right before Joe's big championship game. In the game, he's totally sucking and gets hurt. He pulls himself out of the game because he thinks it would be better for the team. Then Peyton shows up, makes him feel better and he finishes out the game and wins.

Then he gets to keep Peyton in the end, and they live happily ever after.

The End.