Is there a better way to ring in a new year of movies with some more material to add to the Nicolas Cage 'Losing His S*** Montage'?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2017

Whose film career is going downhill faster -- John Cusack's or Nicolas Cage's? It's a good question, and one that the truly wretched drugs thriller Southern Fury (US title: Arsenal) gives us far too much time to consider.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2017

Bad acting and even worse facial prosthetics are the main talking points of Steven C. Miller's crime-thriller, Arsenal; a dreary drama about one man's attempt to rescue his loser of a brother from the hands of the mob.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 3, 2017

The only thing that is less convincing than Cage's prosthetic schnozz is the car crash of a plot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2017

Nicolas Cage delivers one of his all too frequent cringe-making, extra-screamy, dial-a-psycho performances in this ultra-violent Southern noir.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2017

One to avoid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2017

This generic, surprised-it-has-a-theatrical-release endeavour abides faithfully, and affectionately to the tropes of the genre, eventually turning in to your archetypal revenge plot narrative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2017

The kind of film that serves only to add to YouTube supercuts of Cage freaking out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2017

The combined charms of Nicolas Cage and John Cusack might just have been able to save this made-for-VOD thriller, but they are both left on the sidelines.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2017

It's smattered with gore and overacting, and ultimately good for nothing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2017

It's completely devoid of subtlety and surprise, relying only on an abundance of bloody violence and Cage's unhinged performance as the villain to deliver anything remotely compelling.

| Jan 16, 2017

Arsenal attempts to load up on the premise of being an exciting thriller, but when the trigger is pressed nothing worthy comes out of that plot.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 13, 2017

As a small genre movie, it thrills and entertains, transcending the tropes it uses.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 12, 2017

It's easy to understand why "Arsenal" doesn't inspire anything but an immediate need to do something else with your precious time.

| Original Score: F | Jan 12, 2017

Even by Nicolas Cage's now shockingly low standards, Arsenal is bad.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 10, 2017

Arsenal offers up some minor Nicolas Cage-fueled laughs, but as an action movie it's firing blanks. Skip it and go rent Marauders instead.

| Jan 8, 2017

"You could argue that, at this point, [Nicolas Cage] is to 21st-century VOD fare what Wings Hauser was to '80s direct-to-video quickies."

| Jan 6, 2017

By many standards, Nicolas Cage's performance in Arsenal is pretty terrible. But it is also sublimely anarchic, a big middle finger to any acting method you throw in his direction.

| Original Score: C | Jan 6, 2017

Arsenal is not so much a movie as it is a concept of what certain people think a movie should have.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 6, 2017

Obviously and exclusively created for the masochistic community of Nicolas Cage completists, "Arsenal" is far too cut-rate to collect any sort of enduring campy legacy like "Deadfall." But for the often beleaguered actor, it's still good to be King.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2017