Nicolas Cage’s Unhinged Revenge Thriller Makes No Sense, But You’ll Watch It Anyway.
Written by Robert Scucci | Published
Here’s what I learned about myself that I’m not proud of. When I’m scrolling through my streaming apps looking for something to watch, sometimes I come across a Nicolas Cage flick I’ve never seen before, like in 2019. A Point to Fix. The truth is that I probably thought I’d already seen it, but I was confusing it with his other direct-to-video outings titled Revenge Coded, such as It was stolen, Anger, Dog Eat Dogand so on. While I’m glad I’m one movie closer to seeing everything Nicolas Cage has ever done, I have to say this movie is terrible.
But here’s what every Nicolas Cage fan will tell you: a terrible Nicolas Cage movie is still a good Nicolas Cage movie, because Nicolas Cage is in it. I’m sorry, but it’s true. The screen is complete garbage, but you’re still committed to it. It makes no sense no matter how you break it down. He’s still the greatest player in the world, and I’m glad I’m living at the same time because it means that if I’m staring at the moon at night, he’s probably looking at it too.
Why the Settlement Score Doesn’t Make Sense
This is where I usually break the plot before giving a comment, but I don’t think that’s entirely possible A Point to Fix. I’ll try, but I can’t promise anything consistent. Nicolas Cage plays a man named Frank who is released after serving 19 years in prison because he has a rare form of insomnia that will eventually kill him. just send him home.
Why does Frank serve 19 years? When he was young, he worked for the mob and saw his boss Max (Dave MacKinnon) kill one of his players with a baseball bat. He promised that he will be well paid and his family will be taken care of, so he takes this step under the assumption that he will be out in six years. Instead, he gets life in prison. His wife dies inside, and his son Joey (Noah LeGros) grows up orphaned and addicted to drugs.
In other words, Nicolas Cage’s character is well prepared to take revenge because he willingly went to prison because of a known double-crosser, and then acts shocked when that happens, as if he was born yesterday. After his release, he reconnects with Joey and digs up a bag buried in his old yard containing $450,000 and a murder weapon. And I need to remind you again that the people who locked him up thought he beat someone to death with a baseball bat, and they let him go, even though it was proven beyond doubt that he was mentally unstable.
Then he takes his drug-addled son to a fancy resort, buys him lobster and lamb, expensive watches, and a Corvette, as if that will cover every child without a father willing to put him in jail for the price of a decent house in this economy. Considering how much money he spends on luxury items, he’ll probably have to settle for a duplex with ironed windows when all is said and done.
It’s getting worse
Nicolas Cage begins to track down the men he cheated on A Point to Fixdying at inopportune times due to insomnia that threatens his life. He falls in love with a prostitute named Simone (Karolina Wydra), then gets angry at the pimp for sending a different woman using the same name the next day. He buys automatic weapons from his former partner’s daughter known as Sleepy, in front of her child, and kills a man named Tank while eating beef at his upscale, butcher-themed gastropub.
Nicolas Cage doesn’t know how to use a cell phone because he missed out on the smartphone boom while in prison, but somehow he soon knows how to use the device’s GPS while driving a sports car at insane speeds. Earlier in the film, he pays a bellhop $500 to help him get out of his lock screen and find a few addresses for him. Things like this keep happening A Point to Fixand I won’t even spoil the craziest part because you need to see for yourself.
Every revenge trope imaginable pops up A Point to Fixbut you also have to remember that because of the insomnia angle, it’s technically a psychological thriller, but only if it feels like being one. It’s a dynamic story where Nicolas Cage does the best he can with what he’s given, but he’s given so badly that he can’t keep it. I’ll give him an A for trying, though A Point to Fix it does Prisoners of Ghostland look like Casablanca by contrast.
If you work your way through Nicolas Cage’s film as a way to deal with the horrors of modern life, A Point to Fix it won’t do anything for you. It will bring you closer to your ultimate form, and bring you classic Cage Rage, which is always good for the soul. This is the perfect punishment, though, and you should know what you’re getting into.
A Points for Stability currently streaming for free on Tubi.
