'The Retirement Plan' - Movie Review

The movie opens on a couple after a heist gone wrong, trying to get their young daughter out of Miami because she'll be in danger from the criminals they stole from. The daughter ends up in the Cayman Islands with her somewhat drunk grandfather that she's never met before. This is Nic Cage, and when the bad guys come after his granddaughter, they find out he's actually pretty skilled at killing people. There's not much more to it than that - it's a slightly bloody comedy-action movie starring Cage in one of his lesser roles, and from there you can imagine pretty much the entire thing. Except for the ending. What little good-will the movie had built up, it blew on the twist ending.

SPOILER ALERT (don't read etc.) As a note to the producers: you do realize that when we watch something that's advertised as a Nic Cage revenge-comedy-drama, we don't expect the twisty ending of a spy thriller that reveals he's been a puppet all along? Expectation is important in this genre: we watch comedy-action movies to see the good guy win. We watch spy thrillers without any such expectation: it's an important difference. I didn't have high expectations ... but I did have expectations.

They were okay with manipulating Cage's character into taking down "Hector" and her organization. But they needed him to do it because ... what, it's not entirely legal? Then why was the high level government operative and a high level politician on the scene seconds after Cage had performed his bloody slaughter? That's what I came to this movie for: a shit ending that didn't even work logically.