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What's with the extremely jarring tonal shift?


I liked the movie fairly well but that tonal shift from the beginning of the movie to the end is very jarring. The first act is literally like a different movie from the third act. It goes from light comedy to a very heavy, depressing finale.

I feel like if the writer(s) had just stayed on track and not tried to suddenly take the story in a serious direction it would've been a better, more entertaining film.

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I wholeheartedly agree. It made Cage extremely confusing and creepy as he moved between silly and psychotic. There were also some loose ends and unexplained threads. I can’t help but wonder if some heavy editing took place.

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It's almost as if someone wrote a script and then someone else took it and substantially changed the back half.

Weird movie.

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