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Reviews Counted:128
Fresh:73
Rotten:55
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: With fine performances and a dark, dry sense of humor, The Weather Man is mostly cloudy with occasional rays of sunshine.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $12,469,811
Synopsis: Nicholas Cage stars in this dramatic comedy from director Gore Verbinski (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL), once again playing a handsome bachelor in a post mid-life crisis... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult
Director: Gore Verbinski
Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed-down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.
Like its hopelessly befuddled title character, this movie can't quite decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
This movie took me by surprise – both the edginess of the comedy and the warmth of the characters. It’s not at all what I was expecting, and so much better than I hoped.
Dave's self-involvement is so extreme that he can't see that the bluntly human weaknesses of the people around him aren't his fault. We both pity him and want to shake him; eventually, though, we just become bored by him.
This is one glum outing, with occasional pings of wry wit and hearty chuckles.
Top CriticLike the chilly winds that blow throughout it, The Weather Man is cold, grim, erratic and eventually just relentless.
Caine and Cage share a carefully calibrated rapport in which the tone of what's said and the silences surrounding what isn't speak volumes.
It's all believable enough, but it never sings.
Cage is always most enjoyable when he's digging into deeper, more personal territory and he's in fine form as David Spritz.
The film has a lot of rough edges. But it works as an intriguingly offbeat character study while offering Nicolas Cage a chance to show why he used to be considered one of the top actors of his generation.
The main thing he seems to worry about, as he sits, despondent, in his luxury loft, is that he makes a lot of money for doing very little -- a problem everyone would like to have.
The resulting tale of a frustrated under-achiever isn't an out-and-out disaster; just a disappointment.
A washout.
The movie also makes a glib connection between Spritz'a weightless celebrity and his failings as a husband and father, and further asserts that this is all somehow 'American.'
An engaging meditation on a man cursed with that midlife self-awareness.
A sour, deflating and ultimately unlikable black comedy about how awful life can be.
The movie doesn't have the courage of its own bleak convictions.
A vague hint at spiritual rebirth in the closing seconds does nothing to wash away the acid taste of this character, and he's all there is to the movie.
It’s a good thing we have movies like "The Weather Man," just in case we get too happy.
Destined to hang on for a couple of weekends at the multiplex and live on forever as a cult favorite.
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