“Sympathy For The Devil” (* out of four) was a grating misfire about a mysterious passenger (Nicholas Cage) who holds up a driver (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint and forces him to drive him around to a destination unknown and the driver has to find a way to physically and psychologically turn the tables on him and survive. In-your-face and irritating performance from Cage harks back to his earlier works (“Vampire’s Kiss”, “Peggy Sue Got Married”) and Kinnaman is blank and bland. Tough going all the way. For a far better execution of the same story, watch Michael Mann’s “Collateral” instead.

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