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The first thing you think of when seeing the trailer is, It's a Wonderful Life, then when you are sitting in the theater you almost think oh no this is going to be some weird version of, A Christmas Carol, with Nicolas Cage as Scrooge, but guess again. I don't think the writers knew exactly where they were going with this one. The Family man is directed by Brett Ratner and stars Nicholas Cage (Gone in Sixty Seconds) as Jack Campbell a very successful Wall Street investment broker. Note to the director, I don't like the way it ended, but with this story not much you could have done huh? Well, Cage has a sports car, an expensive spacious penthouse, a large closet full of designer suits, shirts from Oxford, is the president of the company he works for and many women revolving in and out of his life, a perfect life, well at least he thinks so. Then he goes to bed on Christmas Eve and wakes up oh my gawd with Tea Leoni (Deep Impact), his wife Kate and their two young children in a house in New Jersey. Cage freaks but can you blame him? Leoni is his college sweetheart and she went off to law school and he went to England to intern in an investment company. He promised to come back but choose the path less traveled so they say, he moved on.. After waking up with a dog licking his face, two yelling children and a cramped cluttered room he jumps up and grabs a pair of red sweatpants, a flannel shirt and races out the door only to meet his in-laws along the way. He drives off in a minivan and races back to the city to his penthouse. The doorman does not know him, his neighbor wants him arrested and he leaves. He goes to his office and the guard doesn't know him. He walks over to the directory to remind him who the president of the company is and sees that it is the guy in his office that always wants to get home to his family, doesn't have the desire to do what it takes to win and Cage is defeated. He exits and up pulls his sports car and the guy from the night before is behind the wheel and tells him he got what was coming to him and hands him a bell. Cage returns to New Jersey and Leoni has a fit that he took off like that on Christmas and he missed it all. Well Christmas day was not all he missed, the last thirteen years need to be unraveled for Cage and he spends the next few weeks discovering them. I liked this movie up until the end, then I was disappointed. If you are going to have a bad ending they could have least made Cage show his naked butt and do a little dance. Too much? A shower like Leoni took then, that would have not been too much. Well because the ending bored me and I believe the writer can't do an accurate time line, I give The Family Man a six on the About-Movies rating scale. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:41 AM |
