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‘Arcadian’ Review: Nicolas Cage Takes a Back Seat to Two Boys and a Bunch of Bugs in Clumsy Survival Thriller
Director Ben Brewer dedicates more attention to imaginative creature designs than to the anemic post-apocalyptic story and underused star Nicolas Cage.
Like a noisy, inelegant knockoff of “A Quiet Place,” Ben Brewer ’s exasperating creature feature focuses on a family of three — an unusually restrained Nicolas Cage and his two teenage sons — squatting in a farmhouse, where they board the doors and windows at night to keep the predators at bay. An opening prologue shows Cage’s character, Paul, jogging past the dark, looming skyline of a dystopian police state where a military conflict is unfolding (imagine a low-budget “12 Monkeys” or “Children of Men”). Meanwhile, his more impulsive brother, Thomas (Maxwell Jenkins of “Lost in Space”), seems relatively oblivious to the risk, sneaking away to the Rose farm, where a girl named Charlotte (Sadie Soverall) lives with a protective group of well-armed adults.
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