In one of the many meta moments in the intermittently hilarious and entertainingly goofy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Nicolas Cage is trying to make the argument he’s NOT actually in the CIA, and he says the only organization he belongs to is the Screen Actors Guild—and also AFTRA, but he’s not really sure what that is: “I think it has something to do with radio.”
That’s a funny throwaway line, referencing the guild merging with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 2012, meaning movie stars and TV journalists and “The Morning Zoo Crew” (and the joker writing this review) all belong to the same union. It’s also an indication this is the kind of movie that will be filled with Easter Eggs and inside jokes, and it’s OK if you don’t get all of the references, because even as “Unbearable Weight” features Nicolas Cage and his family and friends commenting on the “real life” of Nicolas Cage, it’s also a fairly standard Nicolas Cage action film, with international locations, politically charged kidnappings, drug cartels, fights, shootouts and corny messaging about how nothing is more important than family.
