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Matchstick Men is a 2003 American black comedy crime film directed by Ridley Scott and based on Eric Garcia's 2002 novel of the same name. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, and Alison Lohman. The film premiered on September 2, 2003, at the 60th Venice International Film Festival and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on September 12. It received generally positive reviews and grossed…
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Ridley Scott made many great and memorable films, but his filmography also includes titles that managed to slip through the cracks of public consciousness and become relatively obscure. One of those is 2003 drama *The Matchstick Men*. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Eric Garcia. The protagonist, played by Nicolas Cage, is Roy Waller, Los Angeles man who, despite suffering from Tourette syndrom and obsess…More
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I am not a Nicholas Cage fan. I find that this man has made entirely too many films and therefore all of his performances seem to meld together to the point where it doesn't matter if he is playing an alcoholic deadbeat, a policeman, or motorcycle superhero that is an on-fire skeleton, he is basically playing the same role in all of them. Because of this impression I have of the man, I tend to enter his films with v…More