#74: Speed Kills/A Score to Settle

This week, Nathan and Clint dig back into the classic mold of Travolta/Cage double features -- unfortunately, it's for more late-aughts VOD dreck. First up is Speed Kills , a Dollar Tree Casino riff starring John Travolta as a fictionalized version of speedboat manufacturer and mobbed-up multimillionaire Donald Aronow (here "Ben Aronoff"). It looks and feels cheap, and thrums with all the speed of a rowboat down the ol' Mississipp' -- probably because it was initially conceived as a chintzy VR-cinema experiment. Then, we get a slight reprieve with A Score to Settle , which features Nic Cage as his millionth aging mob enforcer looking back on his post-prison life and broken relationships with an eye towards revenge. Cage is reliably solid here -- he can play these kinds of roles in his sleep, not that his terminally-insomniac character would allow it -- but the rest of it is a slog. Still, beats Travolta in a motorboat! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage

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#74: Speed Kills/A Score to Settle is an episode from Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast by Nathan Rabin.

This episode is 44:54 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2024.

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