The Sympathy in ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Should Be for Nic Cage (Movie Review)

Sympathy for the Devil

Rating: 4/10

Director: Yuval Adler

Writers: Luke Paradise

Style: Horror

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Review by Mike Szymanski

The sympathy should be for Nic Cage. My how the mighty has fallen.

A youth staple who starred as a heartthrob in “Valley Girl” in 1983 and then went on to win the Best Actor Oscar for “Leaving Las Vegas” has taken on some pretty horrible roles, and this is one of them.

Like the film he won his Oscar for, this one is also set in Las Vegas. Cage opens with a card trick, but the trick is to actually follow what is going on and going wrong, if you even care.

The director is Yuval Adler, known for similarly obscure films, and written by Luke Paradise. The whole thing is co-produced by Nicolas Cage which is a bit surprising to see how slapped together the whole project is.

Joel Kinnaman plays a down-on-his-luck schlub which he does so well, who is named…