In Cage’s hands, cartoonish moments are imbued with real emotion and real emotions become cartoons. Everything – from individual scenes down to single lines of dialogue – feel like they have been embraced as opportunities for creation. Cage is usually interesting even when his films are not.

dialogue in the bar at about 1 hours in, they’re both impressive but cage is enchanting when he changes rhythm. He’s a genius in that pitiful form

In a 2020 interview, Cage revealed that the released version of the film was recut by Bob Weinstein without Charles’ permission and that the latter’s original version remains unreleased. <u>In 2024, Charles released his original cut of the film onto his YouTube channel, which runs over an hour longer.</u>