TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
generationofswine
I don't know where to start? Are you familiar with the bulk of Mickey Rourke's career? If you are than you are going to love Dana Carvey in this. Is constant Rourke impersonation is almost as good as Norm McDonald's Burt Reynolds.Then again, if you aren't familiar with Rourke, Carvey may just be annoying.Either way, the movie is hysterical and back when Cage found an outlet for all his over-acting abilities...you know, comedies.It's a great comedy that time, unfortunately, swept under the rug. One that should be remembered but like so many other comedies, was taken as disposable fun.Go back, revisit it, watch it again, you won't be disappointed.
gavin6942
At Christmas time, Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage), a straight-laced New York restaurant manager, gets an unpleasant Christmas gift. His brothers Dave (Jon Lovitz) and Alvin (Dana Carvey) are paroled early due to overcrowding and placed in Bill's custody.This film has a bad reputation. Maybe it deserves it. Jon Lovitz has claimed the cast hated making the picture, and the director (George Gallo) was so inept that Nicolas Cage had to step in for much of the picture. There is also the annoying voice Dana Carvey chose to use.Perhaps the biggest misstep is the romance angle. As wonderful as Madchen Amick is, and as great as it is to see her in more things, there was no reason to make her the film's romantic interest. This is a comedy, and hey feel the need to throw in a forced union between a bank robber and mobster's daughter who barely even meet? The general zany comedy is good, though, and one suspects if the script had been handled a little differently, a few things tweaked, this might have been a real winner.
gestapo81
This the only Christmas movie that i watch constantly year after year.I don't know why the low grade.My guess is that people are not using the film properly,and by "properly" i mean: It's a frickin' Christmas flick,don't watch it in July,or after a hard days work in September or in the spring vacation.I mean,what else do you need?it's got great comedy,romance,family closeness and lots of snow,all set in a very easy going small town with uncomplicated inhabitants...the kind of small town in witch we all dream to live.Jon Lovitz,Dana Carvey and Cage are all playing their natural characters without overacting crap or trying to outshine one another.In my opinion this is a slam-dunk Christmas classic and it's to bad for whoever doesn't put it on it's Holidays playlist.
judy young
It was a good mixture of some action and comedy. There was a couple of spots I did not care for personally. Here I do not want to give out any information that would give anything away. Just some short scenes, that did not like. Overall it was good. I would recommend it to most anyone. It would be a very good show for the television stations to air at Christmas time. I happen to like Nicolas Cage as an actor. I watched it a few years ago. Now I own it and am going to enjoy my re-runs of it in the future. Watching the interactions of the three characters Cage, Lovitz, and Carvey was interesting. The turn of events were sometimes surprising and sometimes could be guessed. I did find the comment about where and how Tripod came to be in the movie interesting.
