Review of Mandy (2018) by Greenisgood — 12 Nov 2018

TL;DR - Mandy's story has a bit of a mismatching in it's First and Second Halves. Nick Cage takes a while to rev up into the kind of roles we love watching him do with the story on the same parallel. Even so the set up is much appreciated in the first half making us care which gives us a good reason to stay with Cage's character once the revenge ride begins.

When I watch John Carpenters The Thing which is one of my favorite movies I am instantly transported to the Arctic base that our characters reside on because of the amazing cinematography, soundtrack and some very good editing. Though 'The Thing' is far superior in every aspect, 'Mandy' will give the coming generations a similar feeling transporting them into the world where the titular Mandy resides with her lumberjack husband played by Nicholas Cage, who after the plot set up goes into one of his best over the top NickCagey roles since Face off or Snake Eyes.

Mandy is one of those films which will undoubtedly reach cult status and will be watched in decades to come. The good editing, great cinematography and 'Nice Simple Story' combined with kooky-good performances from cast fuses into a Movie that in its entirety can be summed up as a Beautiful train Wreck. There are Tonal Clashes constantly with the first and the second half of the film being completely different from each other. Even with the jarring switch the movie stay's with it's Tone switch long enough on either side to make Mandy as a must watch at least once as well as Director Cosmatos's Beyond the Black Rainbow also to get the Blu Ray when it Releases.