Film Review – Army of One

“Army of One” isn’t triumphant as a farce, but it does contain a surprisingly engaged performance from star Nicolas Cage. Over the last decade, Cage has mostly turned in dead-eyed, flat performances in terrible, low-budget movies, trying to do something with a career that’s lost its way due to financial concerns. His participation in the latest feature from director Larry Charles (“Borat,” “The Dictator”) isn’t going to change his fortune, but Cage is putting in a major effort to portray a mentally challenged man, going stratospherically big to capture the sheer force of Gary Faulkner, a man who decided to answer a spiritual calling by traveling to the Middle East in 2004, attempting to assassinate Osama Bin Laden. Cage is crazed, and it’s a joy to see the old madman juices flowing again, but “Army of One” doesn’t match his intensity, trying to stretch a thin premise that would be better served in a short film. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com