Sympathy for the Devil

Released Jul 28, 2023

1 hr. 30 min.

Mystery & Thriller

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After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is at it seems.

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Critics Consensus

Sympathy for the Devil makes the most of Nicolas Cage's propensity for playing unhinged characters -- and for some viewers, that'll be more than enough to make it worth a watch.

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Rome C

It is a great concept but poorly executed. Could have been so much more but it was still decent. I liked Nicolas cage’s character

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/22/24

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Tom S

+1 because Nic Cage is in it, else 2 star movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/15/24

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John C

Sympathy for the Devil is an entertaining and tense thrill ride. The premise is superficially similar to that of Collateral, in that a driver's evening turns into a nightmare when the wrong person gets into his car. Joel Kinnaman is on solid form as our protagonist, while Nicolas Cage steals the show as menacing criminal with an agenda (which we only learn in the latter part of the movie). Nobody plays this kind of role quite like Nicolas Cage!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/05/24

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Gareth D

Kinda weird, over the top, trying to mysterious and deep, but it's really not. Kinda meh.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/24

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Ken R

Here it is, yet another opportunity for Nick Cage to overact and chew the scenery. He can now walk through these roles blindfolded as they only require the standard set of over-the-top expressions and groan-inducing explicatives. Those who like this sort of limited trash won't mind, but for a movie with only two main characters, neither of whom has any redeeming qualities, it's a rough road to travel, and still find much to enjoy along the way. Joel Kinnaman is OK as the driver Cage ‘kidnaps', but writer Luke Paradise seems to have only two motivations No.1: To make you feel contempt for humankind and 2: To needlessly kill innocent bystanders while filling in time – neither offers much incentive to bother spending valuable time watching (unless your time is bordering on worthless). For over 90mins, the viewer is forced to run over the same situations and dialogue without getting any closer to finding out if anything might have a resolution, and when the resolution is finally delivered, be left feeling somewhat cheated for what felt like over two Hrs. What might have been a tight little suspense drama is wrung out into an overblown, repugnant hate fest in copycat Tarantino's lack-of-morals manner. You will have to belong to the school of the easily pleased, otherwise be left wanting your time back. And people wonder why there's blood on our streets...?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/15/24

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Jelisije J

When you get Nicholas Cage playing a unpredictable killer who kidnaps a man and forces that man to drive him around you get a memorable experience to say the least.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/24

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Yuval Adler

Director

Nicolas Cage

The Passenger

Joel Kinnaman

The Driver

Kaiwi Lyman

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Cameron Lee Price

Cop

Burns Burns

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Leslie Felperin

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Even if the ending is a bit of a letdown, otherwise it’s a gas.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 6, 2023

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Adler’s efficient direction and a Cage unleashed aren’t enough to keep viewers on the hook in this sparse story.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 10, 2023

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

The problem we have right from the get-go is that neither of these personages gives the viewer much to care about.

Rated: .5/4

Jul 28, 2023

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Michael Szymanski

DreamWeaverArts.org

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

Rated: 4/10

Sep 22, 2023

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Luke Buckmaster

Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

Cage is unhinged and off his trolley (we wouldn’t want it any other way) but keeps eerily calm, or at least eerily repressed, for a lot of it, concealing his psychotic insides and biding his time.

Aug 30, 2023

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Bob Grimm

Reno News and Review

Sometimes, it's just fun to watch Nicolas Cage unravel Nicolas Cage style.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 30, 2023

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Synopsis

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is at it seems.

Director: Yuval Adler
Executive Producer: Marc Goldberg, David Sullivan, Sarah Gabriel, Courtney Chenn, David Haring, Christian Mercuri
Screenwriter: Luke Paradise
Distributor: RLJE Films
Production Co: Capstone Global, Signature Films, Dutch FilmWorks, Hammerstone Studios
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 28, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.4K

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