Rage (2014)

When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

Director:

Paco Cabezas

Writers:

Jim Agnew (as James Agnew), Sean Keller

Stars:

Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Max Ryan

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicolas Cage	...	Paul Maguire
Rachel Nichols	...	Vanessa Maguire
Max Ryan	...	Kane
Michael McGrady	...	Danny Doherty
Peter Stormare	...	Francis O'Connell
Pasha D. Lychnikoff	...	Chernov
Patrice Cols	...	Anton
Weston Cage Coppola	...	Young Paul (as Weston Cage)
Max Fowler	...	Mike
Aubrey Peeples	...	Caitlin Maguire
Jack Falahee	...	Evan
Danny Glover	...	Det. Peter St. John
Ron Goleman	...	Detective Hanson
Michael Papajohn	...	Vory
Amir Zandi	...	Young Doherty (as Amir Zandi-Karimi)

Storyline

The reformed criminal Paul Maguire is a businessman in the construction business and happily married with Vanessa Maguire. His sixteen year-old daughter Caitlin Maguire is his pride and joy. One night, Paul and Vanessa go to a dinner party and leave Caitlin with her friends Mike and Evan at home. During the night, his dinner is interrupted by Detective Peter St. John that tells that Caitlin had been kidnapped and her friends are wounded. Paul learns that three criminals had invaded his house and abducted his daughter. Paul meets his friends and former crew, Kane and Danny Doherty, and they unsuccessfully press the smalltime criminals expecting to have news from Caitlin. Soon she is found dead in a park and they see the result of the ballistics indicating that a Russian Tokarev pistol killed Caitlin. Now Paul is haunted by his past and believes that the Russians are seeking revenge. Paul, Kane and Danny start a war against the Russians but no mobster knows any connection of the Russian...

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Plot Keywords:

scene during end credits | revenge | paralysis | surprise during end credits | ambiguous ending | 

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Taglines:

The past never stays dead.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Hannibal Classics [United States] Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA France

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 May 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Rage

Filming Locations:

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$21,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Patriot Pictures, Hannibal Classics, Saturn Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

"Vory" is acrually plural in Russian, the singular would be "vor", which literally translates as thief, but in criminal slang has a meaning "a criminal boss"

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Goofs

(at around 32 mins) When Paul is talking to Francis in the cemetery, crew and camera equipment are visible reflected in Paul's sunglasses in several shots.

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Quotes

Danny Doherty: Paulie, I've always been loyal.
Paul Maguire: You've always been an idiot!

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Connections

Features Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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Soundtracks

Be Ready
Written by Laurent Eyquem

User Reviews

Mildly interesting movie with a lousy ending

I was hoping for some good old classic criminals-messing-with-the-wrong-guy rather violent action movie when I sat down to watch this one. I was indeed expecting it to be a B-movie but being a B-movie does not necessarily make it a bad movie. Well I was right about it being a B-movie and it was indeed rather violent but for the rest it did not turn out to be exactly what I hoped for.

Paul and his buddies does indeed start to crack down on the less desirable elements of society. This they do using the well-known strategy of applying a healthy dose of violence and if that does not work then you use more violence. In general the movie starts off fairly well but as we ride along it starts to degenerate into silly outbreaks of rage. I know the movie is called Rage (as well as Tokarev) but I was expecting the rage to be directed towards the bad guys and not just senseless shouting into the air. The further we go the more it degenerates. There is the classical cops-who-intervene-and-let-the-bad-guys-get-away stuff. Very annoying. The stupid screw-up of Danny and Paul's way of handling it was also a bit of a downer.

Still, the movie was not all that bad until we reached the end. Well, the end does have a twist to it that has to be said. It also had to be said that I did not like it at all. Even if I could have gotten over the twist itself, the actions of Paul afterwards and the final scenes really sunk the movie for me.

Nicolas Cage did not do a bad performance but, as far as I am concerned, he was given a less than stellar script to work with. Technically I would say that this was on the upper half of the scale for B-movies but the story, especially the ending, was not my cup of tea.