The Travolta/Cage Project is an ambitious, years-long multi-media exploration of the fascinating, overlapping legacies of Face/Off stars John Travolta and Nicolas Cage with two components: this online column exploring the actor’s complete filmographies in chronological order and the Travolta/Cage podcast, where Clint Worthington, myself and a series of fascinating guests discuss the movies I write about here.
That’s not necessarily a good thing, considering that the film went direct to streaming.
When a movie starring Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Adam Goldberg, Cole Hauser, Barry Pepper, Leslie Bibb, Peter Facinelli, Natalia Reyes, and Clifton Collins Jr. skips the theaters entirely en route to Redbox, the thinking goes from “Is it good?” to “How bad can it possibly be?
I would not use words such as “good” to describe Running with the Devil.
It’s not a great movie or even a particularly good one but the bar has been set so low for late-period direct-to-streaming Nicolas Cage movies that all it takes to clear it is being reasonably entertaining and mildly diverting.