TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

cinemajesty Doomed to going-under in theatrical releases since his last major production for Hollywood Major Walt Disney Pictures in Summer 2010 in the role of Balthazar in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", actor Nicolas Cage gets this relieving part as real-life character Gary Fauklner, who sets out several times in 2000er years to capture Al-Qaeda's snake-head Osama Bin Laden as the name given "Army of One".Director Larry Charles makes no prisoners in this production as he did with his previous close to mockumentary conceived in-official trilogy of social mischief in praising comedian/actor Sacha Baron Cohen in the parts of "Borat" (2006), "Brüno" (2009) and "The Dictator" (2012), given an astounding budget range from 18 to 65 Million U.S. Dollars per movie to make the illusion of watching-actual documentary footage of a fictitious character in a real-time moving society."Army of One" steps away from the approach of a mockumentary, presenting Nicolas Cage with a stage to act out all his accumulated stress and exasperation of years apart from challenging roles, except perhaps the part of "Joe" in Season 2012/2013 David Gordon Green's motion picture of the name, which nevertheless could not dive into depths of characters as Frank Pierce in "Bringing Out The Dead" (1999) directed by Martin Scorsese or Tom Welles in "8mm" (1999) directed by Joel Schumacher to still ultimately nerve striking Ben Sanderson of the motion picture "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) directed Mike Figgis, which all had been hard to be conceivable parts, even if the transcended emotions from screen to the audience under at times spine-struggle directors may vary to this day of retrospective.For me personally, it had been a gut-striking pleasure with an occasional LoL to see Nic Cage acting himself loose even to a point of jagged-edged havoc in this short-lived if not meaningless motion picture by Larry Charles, who unfortunately could not find the illuminating emotional point break by the end in interpreting the real-life character of Gary Fauklner, when having actor Nicolas Cage, dressed in black, put into place, watching former U.S. President Barack Obama on TV, announcing the killing of Osama Bin Laden, which finally confronts the main character with his illusions, giving him the chance to come out clean by translating meaning of his actions into this world's reality.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Bob Rutzel Sadly, apparently this is somewhat a true story. Sad.Gary Faulkner (Nicolas Cage) is told by God (Russell Brand) to go to Pakistan and find and capture Osama Bin Laden.If Mr Cage did not use that ridiculous voice - thinking he was mimicking the real Gary Faulkner - this would not have been as bad as it is. I mean by using his own voice this could have been good, funny and at least watchable and most important of all the Nicolas Cage Impersonators would have been in 7th Heaven. Now they are shaking their collective heads. Sad. We do see the real Gary Faulkner at the end of the movie as he appeared on the TV show The View and in other interviews, and his voice sounded good and nothing like the one used by Nicolas Cage in this Silly, Ridiculous and mostly Annoying movie. It was this voice used by Cage that put this into a tailspin. (If you didn't like this, why did you watch it to the end?)Truth be told I was hoping this would save itself as I do like Nicolas Cage and I was hoping that the Director and other powers that be would see that this voice of Cage's just wasn't working. They didn't see it. Sad. Also it was the out-of-control-behavior Faulkner exhibited that was just as annoying. Using Russell Brand as God was okay, but when this "God" uses foul language then all this falls apart. Couldn't anyone see that? Apparently not. Sad. There is nothing more to be said. This was like being in a nightmare we couldn't get out of. Very sad. If there was ever a story that never had to be told, this is it. (1/10)Violence: Yes, Faulkner gets beat up. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes.

Pramitheus I don't understand whether Nic Cage is too good for us to judge or so atrociously bad that he numbs your mind to the point where you can't make a judgment? On top of that he stars in this kind of a movie. I won't put up a poster in the featured image, I'll just put this snippet there to judge the absurdity of the movie.DIRECTION - After Borat and the Dictator, I was expecting the absurdity to be very high but when the words "True story" came on screen, I started questioning that was this a story worth telling? It looked like Larry Charles didn't know which direction to go with. To go completely crazy like Borat or keep it sane for the general audience. I think he tried to balance it out and created nothing. He starts out somber with an eccentric character, assisted with a narration and then a countdown of his days in Pakistan. In Borat the comedy was so raw that I felt pity for the character and the movie was aware that it was presenting itself in that way. In this movie there is an urge to become mainstream due to which the off-beat comedy doesn't reach the desired level.STORY - I again ask this? Was this a story worth telling? Really? A guy on dialysis went to Pakistan and then got hyped by the news and then it got made into a MOVIE? I mean when you listen to it, it might seem amusing but to make into a movie there should be something interesting in it. There was the odd love angle that kept barging in whenever things started to gain momentum. There was no need to humanize this person because you are sailing on the strangeness of the scenario. Why try to ground it in reality? I don't think there was any real script here. They just heard the story, got the highlights, put in some fillers, smoked a lot of weed, got the distributors high and made it into a movie.ACTING - Nicholas Cage finally unleashes his entire absurd eccentricity on-screen. There are good moments where he becomes the character with the voice modulation. Then again he returns to his classic shouting and eye-widening. It was cringe-worthy and not funny at all. The only times I chuckled was because of the thought kept hitting me that,"How did this get made into a MOVIE!!"FINAL VERDICT - Drink a lot, smoke a lot of weed and watch this movie. Trust me, you're going to have a ball! It is so absurd that you'll laugh like anything. I won't give tell you to give it a pass if you are in contact with your weed dealer or you have a liquor shop near you. Get high and watch it with your friends. There is a massive chance that they might shun you as your friend for convincing them to watch it. On the flip side, there is also the chance you'll enjoy it.

coleoptera-20518 Do you like Nick Cage? Do you like swords? Then why haven't you seen this movie?In this stellar performance, Nick Cage delivers a knock-out, drop-dead, 10/10 performance. (I'm not even joking.) I don't think anyone could have portrayed his character closer to the actual man than Nick Cage. I've seen a lot of Nick Cage movies. A lot of "bad" ones. I liked them, but I like to get drunk and watch Nick Cage movies. It's somewhat of a pass time. This movie however is actually a movie I would recommend watching with real people. There's a certain awkwardness of the whole movie, the type of awkwardness you've come to expect from a movie with Nick Cage in it, but it actually fits this time. I mean hell I even felt bad for the lady (his girlfriend/chick from Reno 911). The whole situation is ridiculous and she just goes along with. Just like me watching a typical Nick Cage movie. But this isn't a typical Nick Cage movie. This is on National Treasure levels, and I'm serious when I say that. Now sure there's stuff that doesn't work. It kind of seems lazy that there's a narrator for example, but you should still see this movie. Everyone should see this movie. Half the time I'm asking myself what the hell is happening. And I look at the screen and I get the feeling Nick Cage is asking himself the same question. 10/10 would watch again.