Amazon Prime Video adds ‘perversely entertaining’ Nicolas Cage film with his best comic performance

Amazon Prime Video has softly added a ‘truly original’ Nicolas Cage movie that fans accidental had them ‘riveted’ passim – mostly down to his wide praised comedic crook successful the pb role.

Dream Scenario was added to the streaming level conscionable this week but has been causing waves since its merchandise successful 2023.

Its 61-year-old prima adjacent picked up the champion histrion successful a movie prize astatine the Saturn Awards connected Sunday for his performance, and the movie holds a beauteous stellar 91% professional standing connected reappraisal aggregator tract Rotten Tomatoes.

The A24 movie is besides considered a coagulated portion of his caller vocation ‘renaissance’ filmography alongside the likes of Pig, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Surfer and headline-grabbing fearfulness Longlegs.

In Dream Scenario, Cage appears transformed to play Paul Matthews, a regular household antheral and biology prof who finds his beingness turned upside down erstwhile millions of strangers abruptly commencement seeing him successful their dreams.

However, his newfound stardom soon starts to instrumentality a nightmarish turn, with Paul struggling to grip the attention.

Rick Bentley for KGET called Dream Scenario ‘one of the champion films of the year’, portion The Age’s reappraisal commented: ‘The spectacle of Cage revelling successful being boring is perversely entertaining successful itself.’

Fans couldn’t hold much with the assessments arsenic Kevin P wrote: ‘A bizarre surreal acheronian drama with an insane premise and 1 hellhole of an awkward yet consistently engaging show from Nicholas Cage.’

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‘This movie mightiness beryllium 1 of my all-time favourites aft watching it,’ Luke J shared successful his assemblage review, portion Frank C said that Cage’s ‘incredible’ show successful the unsettling movie had him ‘riveted the full time’.

‘Dream Scenario is the benignant of movie that makes you wonderment if Nicolas Cage was calved to redefine ‘over-the-top’ oregon if ‘over-the-top’ was invented to support up with Nicolas Cage. It’s a masterclass successful eccentricity, featuring Cage successful a show truthful quintessentially Nic Cage that it feels similar he’s playing each Nic Cage meme ever made,’ Sam N enthused successful a remark definite to thrill each Cage fans.

Jonathan O besides thought it ‘one of the champion comic performances by Nicolas Cage’, comparing it to a Freddy Krueger root story.

The film, written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, besides co-stars Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera and Tim Meadows.

Dream Scenario is streaming connected Prime Video now.

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