OK, the setup is, a silent cowboy is essentially trapped in a Chuck E Cheese, battling sentient, murderous animatronic characters. Oh, wait, also: the cowboy is Nicholas Cage, which changes everything. This film knows exactly what it is, and remains unapologetically true to itself all the way through. Such a ludicrous idea doesn’t need to be excessively overdone, and so it mostly isn’t, it’s just done and the natural excess of the whole idea is let speak for itself. I really kinda love this movie. Plus, you’ve got a movie in which Nicholas Cage has to be Nicholas Cage without uttering a single word of dialogue, which, ok, I can take or leave Nicholas Cage, but he’s the man for the job in this case.
