Underrated Manly Movies: Part IV
Kiss Of Death (1995)
By many accounts, this movie is kinda trashy. I guess in some ways the critics are right. To be blunt about it, this is not a good movie. But then, it’s so entertaining. Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, David Caruso and other ‘that guy’ faces you know, but can’t name, from the 1990s.
It’s a movie about a man, Caruso, infiltrating a criminal empire, led by Nicolas Cage. In the movie, between beating up pissants, a jacked up Cage bench presses hot blondes at the local strip joint. I mean come the fuck on! Speaking of Cage, he also puts in a master troll performance.
I mean Cage is worth watching this movie for alone. It’s odd though that Caruso is playing it straight as a rod, opposite good old Nic, who is chewing up the quite frankly awful screenplay and spitting it out.
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