Here's what you need to know: Nicholas Cage is a dangerous big game hunter (in the movie, and also possibly in real life - who knows). He tracks and captures a rare and valuable white jaguar, then, hoping to cash in on his prize, he boards a ship along with cages full of his other animals, including venomous snakes and vicious monkeys.
Sure, the animals are dangerous, but they're all in cages. They can't possibly get out of those cages. The ship ride should go just fine.
It seems simple enough, right? Not so fast! When it comes to Nicholas Cage nothing is ever quite so simple.
The complication in this case arrives in the form of a deadly assassin. Thoroughly chained, he boards the ship and pops a squat in - guess what - a cage.
So now the obvious question becomes, 'who is the most dangerous animal in these cages?' Probably the one who can operate a gun, but I'll let you count who ends up with the most kills by movie's end.
Anyway, if you can believe it, the assassin manages to escape the cage. And what does he do? He releases all the dangerous animals, is what he does. So now, we have ship full of loose deadly animals and a very deadly assassin.
No one could possibly conquer the animals and the assassin, I thought. But then, Nicholas Cage does all sorts of Nicholas Cage things, and I think at one point Nicholas Cage the actor believed he actually was a hunter trying to save the people on board the ship from a killer man and killer animals. Needless to say, the action is spectacular.
If I'm really being honest with myself and anyone who happens to be reading this, the movie isn't actually spectacular. It's a hunter on ship pursuing dangerous animals and an assassin - it's not exactly 'Citizen Kane,' you know? But I had fun watching it. If you're willing to turn off your brain for 90 minutes, you can have fun watching it too.
Sure, the animals are dangerous, but they're all in cages. They can't possibly get out of those cages. The ship ride should go just fine.
It seems simple enough, right? Not so fast! When it comes to Nicholas Cage nothing is ever quite so simple.
The complication in this case arrives in the form of a deadly assassin. Thoroughly chained, he boards the ship and pops a squat in - guess what - a cage.
So now the obvious question becomes, 'who is the most dangerous animal in these cages?' Probably the one who can operate a gun, but I'll let you count who ends up with the most kills by movie's end.
Anyway, if you can believe it, the assassin manages to escape the cage. And what does he do? He releases all the dangerous animals, is what he does. So now, we have ship full of loose deadly animals and a very deadly assassin.
No one could possibly conquer the animals and the assassin, I thought. But then, Nicholas Cage does all sorts of Nicholas Cage things, and I think at one point Nicholas Cage the actor believed he actually was a hunter trying to save the people on board the ship from a killer man and killer animals. Needless to say, the action is spectacular.
If I'm really being honest with myself and anyone who happens to be reading this, the movie isn't actually spectacular. It's a hunter on ship pursuing dangerous animals and an assassin - it's not exactly 'Citizen Kane,' you know? But I had fun watching it. If you're willing to turn off your brain for 90 minutes, you can have fun watching it too.