Watched a terrible Nicolas Cage movie called Rage. Originally called Tokarev. Brutal violence. Weird Nicolas Cage overacting. He played a terribly unappealing character anyway. I didn't care that his horrible daughter was killed.
Nicolas Cage is a former organized crime guy turned legitimate businessman. He's still a horrible, horrible person. His daughter is kidnapped and he figures it was by the local Russian mafia who he had robbed years earlier. After his daughter is found dead, he and his former criminal associates go out to find who did it. They investigate by murdering people. I don't know how this is supposed to lead anywhere. The Russians in the movie at least have the good sense to speak to people before murdering them.
I don't know if I'm giving it away here, but they sort of stole the ending from The Limey (1999).
It was set in Mobile, Alabama, but it was so generic it could have been anywhere. I don't think there were even any Southern accents in it.
To give it a sense of location, the Russian criminals should have used a snake handling church as a front for their operation. Or maybe an alligator farm. It could have shown racist groups from the '60's evolved into mafia-like gangs. It could have had chases through the flat, treeless countryside in old American cars. They could at least have had banjo music with bass harmonica.
Man, that was a bad movie.
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