Surprisingly, better than I expected. From the film synopsis I knew it was going to be a light-hearted romance type of film. It had a simple premise: Jack (Nicolas Cage)’s mother dies and leaves him with a fear of getting married after she warns him against it. We gather that he works as some sort of private investigator, spying on partners who are suspected of cheating. Anyway, he has a girlfriend Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) who wants to get married. Finally, Jack decides to get married to her and they go to Las Vegas in order to marry. However, Jack plays a game of poker and ends up $65,000 in debt to a wealthy, influential shady character, who demands a weekend with his fiancée to clear the debt (clearly, it was a fixed game). After lots of arguing, Jack and Betsy agree and she goes with the man. He whisks her off to Hawaii and we see he is trying to win her heart, saying that he used to have a wife that she reminds him of. After lots of running around on Jack’s part, and Betsy actually getting close to marrying the man, they are reunited when Jack skydives out of a plane in Vegas and she happens to be running away from the man after reconsidering marriage to him, and of course, they meet and get married straight away. Interesting thing I noted, there were plenty of Elvis impersonators and Elvis cover songs on the movie soundtrack (such as “Viva Las Vegas”, which reminded me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and then of course, the fact that Cage introduced Depp to acting). The fact that Cage dresses as Elvis when he skydives with the group of Elvis impersonators seems like the role was cut out for him − or maybe as an enticement to the role, as I know Cage is a huge fan of the singer. So that does bring up a curious note. But regardless, I think Cage did a great job − he really is a fine actor and very emotional so I don’t know how people can view him as plain and “fake”. Even in a pretty average movie like this, he played his role well.
3.5/5
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