Film Review – Dream Scenario

While he works almost non-stop at this point, it’s heartening to watch Nicolas Cage at least make some effort to challenge himself with wildly different parts. In 2023 alone, he’s portrayed a cowboy (“The Old Way”), Dracula (“Renfield”), a bison hunter (“Butcher’s Crossing”), a lunatic (“Sympathy for the Devil”), and a man of action (“The Retirement Plan”), and Cage retains that omnipresence for “Dream Scenario,” playing an average person who’s suddenly inserted into everyone’s mind while they sleep. It’s a dark comedy from writer/director Kristoffer Borgli, who uses Cage’s natural way with strangeness and panic perfectly, guiding the actor to his best performance of the year in a movie that takes on the choppy waters of fame and infamy, tracking the powerlessness of such a position in our modern age. “Dream Scenario” is a mix of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, with Borgli more interested in behavior then quirk, finding some level of humanity in the middle of a giant subconscious mess. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com