A Score to Settle

The story is quite good, though I would have liked it more if there was no twist in the middle. The pace could be a little faster, but it is an adequately entertaining film.

"A Score to Settle" is another disappointing film with Nicolas Cage in the lead role. However, as a fan of this actor, I dare to say that he has a good performance. But the depressing story has a weak plot point and the direction and the screenplay are not in a good pace. Instead of a thriller or an action film, the viewer sees a boring and heavy drama with deceptive conclusion. Nicolas Cage needs to find better stories and screenplays. My vote is three.

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Film tries to be deep and clever with a "plot twist" that anyone with eyes sees coming from a mile away. Cliches of course abound, so expect to see all the generic quotes and tropes you've seen/ heard before. The only twist being that this film blurs the genres of films it steals it's quotes from.

All of this said is it a terrible film? No. It's ok. Just about. Watchable if you're not really paying attention.

Also, whatever you do, don't question the timelines, e.g. how a young adult can go to jail for 19 years but come out an old man.

Anyway, the terrible cliches, inconsistencies in timelines (forcibly injected so the characters fit the proper cliches), and a pretty average script let this film down.

5/10

CF

People tend to jump on the hate train too quickly that they fail to see that this movie had great potential. If only they had a director that knows what he is doing, plus with the budget they had. This is not a bad movie BUT there were some pretty bad moments that pretty much ruined it. This is not an action film but is centered around the Nick's character. So dont expect guns-blazing-mindless-action. Its really not that bad.

I expected a phoned in performance from Cafe but he really gave a great performance. A good story that kept my attention. Cage had some great dialogue in this and I think in anyone else hands it wouldn't have worked. It may have been a straight to blu ray movie but so much better than most of his recent low budget efforts. Great character and script. I liked the RoboCop reference in the dialogue. The 'Dragon' character was poor acting though and his scenes were so over acted it made Cage seem reserved ha ha.

A surprising enjoyable film.