“Renfield”: Nicolas Cage as the megalomaniac Dracula, denounced by his servant

The opinion of the “world” – why not

We’re no longer sure what kind of fiction we have to invent to welcome the “crazy” creation that Nicolas Cage became, a broken and marginalized man who was offered a second youth and became an internet star. International. Here it now lurks in the custom B series, objects painfully aware of the fate of minor cult objects simply by virtue of being on an actor’s account.

Problem: Kagyen’s Great Folly no longer has the luster of its glory years (A bad lieutenantby Werner Herzog, his masterpiece, in 2009) and the man was locked into a single and unique register that eventually became boring. Acting silliness woven with self-parody has become a predictable fair number that can’t help but stifle a few giggles.

A toxic relationship

Renfield Flipping the coin into the machine offers Cage the opportunity for metamorphosis that his transformative catalog has lacked: here he is trapped by the megalomaniac Dracula, who maintains a toxic relationship with his servant, RM Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), who . In today’s world, he is responsible for finding innocent victims to quench his master’s bloodlust.

Witnessing an act of courage, the valet-vampire realizes that life is possible outside of evil. Here he decides to hang up his apron as an employee with the support of a support group that helps him escape the clutches of a narcissistic boss and a beautiful police officer with whom he encounters the local mafia.

Romance, gangster movie, action blockbuster, fantasy B-series, gory parody… Renfield Collecting genres like Dracula victims, stripping away anything that gets in the way to better disguise its narrative nothingness. And, at regular intervals, Nicolas Cage leads a number of digital effects-doped horrors that visually represent the entire history of vampire cinema – from Tod Browning to Hammer movies. Dracula (1992) by Francis Ford Coppola.

And of course, the only interest in this feature film is to replace Cage in the ranks of fair-trade actors like Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Lon Cheney. He is their heir, but seems lost and bloodless from an overdose of Saturday night regrets. We bet that one day the film will break free of the buffoonery to offer it a little of the rest of the first quality.