The Retirement Plan

I love being surprised when a movie is better than I expected. “The Retirement Plan” looked like it would be just another Nicolas Cage assembly line production. It is not. Everything starts out with a heist gone wrong. The getaway driver is married to the one of the culprits who has stolen a drive with dangerous information. The wife, played by newcomer Ashley Green, has to flee the country with her daughter. They go to the Camen Islands, where her estranged father, played by Cage, lives. Then the fun starts. Cage is a Rambo type and the bad guys don’t know what hit them. There are twists and turns and a high body count done cleverly. This is a caper movie with lots of action. The real surprise for me was Ron Perlman. He plays an intellectual gangster. Very enjoyable!