Painstakingly generic, one only wishes it would at least reach the heights of emotion its succinct title promises, yet every turn, and even a forlornly tacky plot twist, play out like some inevitable, flaccid Ferris Wheel of schlock.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Would not have been saved by more of those over-the-top Cage moments, but it would have helped.

| Original Score: 1.75/5 | Aug 31, 2018

Generally awful and without redeeming qualities...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 8, 2018

Sadly, Rage is generally a slog and it's not Cage's fault.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 23, 2017

Cage's investigative method is to shoot first, ask questions later, so it's no wonder his lines of inquiry run into dead ends.

| Sep 21, 2014

It feels like the dynamic, volatile actor is on auto-pilot, and the rest of the movie doesn't do much to back him up.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2014

Tired, lazy, incongruous, shocking and hilarious in all the wrong places, "Rage" is destined for the graveyard television slot, squeezed between infomercials for mops. Perhaps there is a good drinking game in here somewhere.

| Original Score: F | Aug 23, 2014

Even the stylish fight sequences don't have much of an impact because the film takes itself way too seriously.

| Jul 25, 2014

Judging from the lack of quality on the screen, perhaps it's time for Cage, Glover, and Stormare to throw in the towel.

| Original Score: F | Jul 22, 2014

It's sobering conclusions are heartfelt, but ultimately unearned.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2014

Not terrible enough to work up enough emotion to make you mad, just once again frustrate you with the knowledge that you wasted time giving Cage yet another chance to disappoint you.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 21, 2014

Sporadically hilariously awful, but mostly cheap, amateurish and so distasteful it borders on the vile. Poor Nicolas Cage and his foundering career.

| Jul 17, 2014

A thoroughly average Cage-a-thon for followers of The Nick.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 15, 2014

Piles on the foreign accents and paint-by-numbers brutality, all served up with a grim, operatic self-seriousness that gives Cage's antihero little room to maneuver.

| Jul 14, 2014

... a pulp-y, no-nonsense vigilante number that sounds like it was scripted by a computer program ... Say what you will about Cage, he gives the viewer his money's worth in tics and mad-dog froth.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Nicolas Cage acts his socks off in this thinly plotted thriller, which is set in the same moral universe as the Taken movies, where mass murder is excusable if your daughter's been kidnapped.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2014

Cage may not always be easy on the eyes, but at his best, you can't turn away from him, because you never really know what he'll do next. But here, the actor plays it drab and dour.

| Jul 11, 2014

'Rage' ends up as a bloody cautionary tale about how revenge served hot can backfire. It also reminds us that violence breeds violence. Not a bad message in today's world.

| Jul 11, 2014

There isn't an original frame or line of dialogue in Rage.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 11, 2014

A dull, lifeless thing even in spite of its efforts, old-school grindhouse picture-style, to put an exploitation-nihilist spin on the dad-with-action-movie-skills-on-the-rampage boilerplate ...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 11, 2014