Was this 'secretly' meant to be a parody?
I have to wonder if the people involved with this movie were really having a big laugh at the audience’s expense. I can’t think of another time I’ve seen a so-called horror movie and actually gone to bed still laughing about it. Cage in a bear suit punching out women – I can’t it help it, it was too funny.
When Cage does the immortal “Not the bees!” All I could think of was Steve Martin in The Jerk. “They’re shooting at the cans!”
When he gets his legs broken at the end, “Aagh my legs!” I kept thinking of was Will Ferrell in Austin Powers. I was waiting for him to start shouting, "It's getting really warm in here! Where did these goats come from?"
This is before we even get onto the ridiculous bike jacking scene and the last half hour where Cage starts punching out all the women (although by that point I could kind of see his motivation, they were a smug and annoying bunch)
And then he puts on the bear suit. He should do all his movies in a bear suit.
I am sure that the final scene where the bees sound around Leelee Sobieski in the bar was supposed to be chilling but I was on the floor by that point.
Admittedly the rest of it was pretty dull but those moments were a piece of fried gold and puts this movie up there with Hot Fuzz in terms of cop parodies.
I think there should be a sequel in which Jack Bauer is lured to the island. He’d have that whole situation straightened out by dinner time.