The Retirement Plan 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

Matt (Nicolas Cage), who lives on the street, must help his daughter and granddaughter fight criminal masterminds.

The Retirement Plan 4K Review
A simple girl Ashley (Ashley Greene) crosses paths with dangerous people. While the heroine solves problems with criminal mastermind Donnie (Jackie Earle Haley), her daughter Sarah (Talia Campbell) waits out the storm in the Cayman Islands with her grandfather Matt (Nicolas Cage). The man has never been involved with the family, but now gets a chance to be a knight of the day. After all, he spent his best years in the agency, eliminating enemies of the state. His daughter's abusers are easy prey for him.

"The Retirement Plan" is a movie from a past life. At least, that's how Nicolas Cage probably sees it. The movie was filmed back in 2021, and in 2022, the actor promised that he would start to choose projects more carefully and 10 times think before signing another contract. Action movie with the original title "Pension Plan", of course, not the worst work in the career of the star, but the standard pale. And it is possible that it and a few more projects a year became the last straw for Cage.

The movie works according to several genre methodologies. First of all, it is an action movie in the style of Guy Ritchie's early comedies. Heroes are presented with the help of epic fonts on half a screen, protagonists deftly and ridiculously kill enemies, and some characters are deliberately caricatured. For example, Bobo, played by Ron Perlman, is both a bloodthirsty gangster and a lover of literature. Or his boss Donnie: he hates the heat so much that to the last postpones a visit to the Cayman Islands - even if without his participation can not solve the problem.

"The Retirement Plan" pretends to be a family dramedy, too. Willingly, a grieving father and his daughter finally spend time together. Only not as they wanted: the leisure time of relatives consists of murders, shootings and chases. Matt teaches Ashley literally his only skill - neutralizing people. Finally, the movie is also an intricate spy thriller. Not too much straining, the creators introduce into the plot of the story with multi-tracks agents and cunning plans of the chiefs of the department.

The only problem is that these three genres don't get along together at all. For a bully action movie, The Retirement Plan is too melodramatic. For a family story, it's too cynical. And a tense thriller looks askew with both the first and the second. The movie is not suitable even for background viewing: the movie is monotonous, unhurried and too chatty. Before going into battle, the heroes spend another 10 minutes discussing the plan and recalling past skirmishes.

The only relevant question is how Nicholas Cage feels in all this buffoonery. Even in his worst form, the actor remains the highlight of the program. He kills enemies with a shot from a signal gun, throws enemies from the height of a five-story building and, of course, spectacularly yells. Is it worth it in the aggregate fifteen-minute benefit of the star? Only loyal fans of the artist will answer positively.