Netflix pick for 8/24/15 – ‘Joe’

From 2013, “Joe” is the story of a man learning how to love again. But not in that way. In a more general, “oh yeah, there are feelings other than anger” kind of way. This man is Joe, and his portrayed by Nicolas Cage, and in this instance, this is a good thing.

A tale of broken families and downtrodden people, raging against their small, tumultuous worlds, where only the youthful have even a chance of getting out if only because they have still have some time. But it’ll run out soon enough. It always does.

Allow me to speak for myself, cause this sums it up:

And with “Joe,” not only do we have the second movie in a row of David Gordon Green getting back down to his nitty-gritty low budget character-driven storytelling roots, but we also get one of those electric, engaging, top notch performances that Nic Cage delivers every now and then that reminds us all why we like Nic Cage so much to begin with. He’s a tough son of a bitch in this one, a man thoroughly at war with the world around him, trying to keep it all bottled up, thrashing out violently at anyone that gets in his way, otherwise a genial fellow; he’s a lot like the blood thirsty bulldog he keeps chained to his house, a dog which can be the sweetest thing in the world when in the right hands, but provoked and pointed in the correct direction, can become a thing of horrific violence.

Yup. That’s about right.

Watch “Joe” right here on the Netflix Instant.