50
There are some good ideas struggling to be heard, but they're drowned out by the contrivances, the gunfire and the screaming.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
40
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
You may feel some anger if you pay to watch this. Or you may not, as Rage offers exactly what you think a Nic Cage movie called Rage would, except maybe for continually inspired lunacy.
25
Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
Paco Cabezas's film is little more than a revenge relic pretending that the ethical treatise of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence never happened.
20
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
As for our leading man, he’s clearly just messing with us now. Who else would make a revenge thriller called Rage and then sleepwalk his way through it?
42
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Unfortunately, eccentricities are few and far between in the movie, with sleepy action that bungles its best ideas (like its potentially interesting twist ending) and finds Cage delivering one of his more moribund performances.
25
There’s nothing wrong with being a brainless B-movie, but this one is funless and lackluster, a grinding mess of pulp clichés with dull characters, perfunctory violence and dim plotting.
50
Rage actually has something to say about the futility of vengeance, though that doesn’t become apparent until a climactic revelation re-contextualizes everything. Unfortunately, getting to that sorrowful ending is a real slog.
25
Rage is another formulaic re-tread that needs its brakes re-lined.
38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
Rage lets us see where all the money was spent — on Cage, and on a noisy, metal-rending car chase through scenic Mobile. It’s head-slappingly dumb, it’s dull and even the novelty of filming outside of the over-filmed Los Angeles adds nothing.
50
A picture that isn't as terrible as its title suggests now as deep as its story aspires to be.