Perhaps the tragedy of Paul Maguire leaves him with many painful events, for Paul is a respectable businessman who lives in peace so that his past can suddenly appear and haunt him. Over time, his daughter is kidnapped unexpectedly, as Paul Maguire's group of ex-accomplices tries to help him find his daughter by all means. Perhaps the painful past will be the reason for this, as there is a wide range of bloody secrets buried in the past.
Cage may not always be easy on the eyes, but at his best, you can't turn away from him, because you never really know what he'll do next. But here, the actor plays it drab and dour.
Tired, lazy, incongruous, shocking and hilarious in all the wrong places, "Rage" is destined for the graveyard television slot, squeezed between infomercials for mops. Perhaps there is a good drinking game in here somewhere.
A dull, lifeless thing even in spite of its efforts, old-school grindhouse picture-style, to put an exploitation-nihilist spin on the dad-with-action-movie-skills-on-the-rampage boilerplate ...
Piles on the foreign accents and paint-by-numbers brutality, all served up with a grim, operatic self-seriousness that gives Cage's antihero little room to maneuver.
