Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Bell, Thomas Clay Schumann, Toli Kittles
The film mainly tells a Las Vegas Magician Chris Johnson, using his special function of "foreseeing the future", helped the FBI fight against terrorists and save the world.
Chris Johnson, a magic performer in Las Vegas, has a secret. He can predict what will happen next moment. This supernatural ability is both a talent and a curse that annoys him. When he was a child, he was fed up with all kinds of tests and the government and medical research departments were curious about him, so he decided to stay anonymous and live an ordinary life. As an adult, he lived by playing cheap magic tricks in a low-level bar in the casino. Sometimes he gambled for small money to make some extra money. Although he deliberately kept a low profile, he attracted the attention of the casino guards. They stared at him through surveillance probes. With one move, I want to discover the secret that he can bet every time. At the same time, government agent Kelly Friss is also looking for Chris' whereabouts. A terrorist organization threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb and razed Los Angeles to the ground. Kelly, who was in desperate order, must find Chris and convince him to use special powers to help prevent the catastrophe and destroy the terrorist organization's conspiracy...
A moving hero movie, the screenwriter's idea is also very clever. It is precisely with a good script that Nicholas Cage clearly plays a super tough guy, but it makes people tearful. Everyone may have imagined what would happen if they had superpowers. And Nicholas Cage is just like we thought, in every two-minute period that can be foreseen, doing all the best choices, hoping to achieve the most perfect and correct future. But what is different from our imagination is that the reality is not so beautiful. After every step of optimization, the choices that we finally enter are all possible perishable endings, including love. At this time, we discovered that even if we realize our dream, is this dream as we wish it to be? Are all the so-called heroes really victorious like 007? In fact, in this kind of life, 007 is just an illusory dream that Hollywood weaves for us, but it is a Nicholas Cage-like hero, more in line with the realistic meaning-all good wishes are accompanied by unsatisfactory reality.
And such a hero is truly touching. It is this fate that makes us understand that the future of life requires us to solve the mystery by ourselves. The plot of
is relatively simple. The main events that occur are the male protagonist's foresight of the future that has not yet occurred. But the rhythm of the film is extremely tight. After watching the 90-minute film, it makes people feel unfulfilled. In the film, because Kreis can only predict what will happen within two minutes, Nicholas Cage often appears in the film looking at the watch to calculate the time, which invisibly brings a tense atmosphere to the film. The infinite options for the future also make the film's science fiction full of colors. One of the memorable scenes in the movie is the various ways that Kreis foresaw when he met the heroine. The film repeatedly switches between reality and speculation, and cleverly splicing various speculations, looks mysterious and interesting.
