A Score to Settle  ★★

YOU know how there are some movies where you keep getting fixated on minor detail?

Usually it’s because they aren’t any good and your mind wanders. Well, the 2019 drama A Score to Settle is one of those.

It stars Nicholas Cage as Frank, who gets out of jail after 19 years and immediately seeks revenge on the former criminal acquaintances responsible for putting him behind bars.

In between, he reacquaints with his now adult son and strikes up a relationship with a friendly, high-class prostitute.

The script, by John Stuart Newman, is all over the place with many questions, such as why Frank is an insomniac and why he keeps rejecting his son, left unsatisfactorily unanswered.

The time spent with Frank trying to re-connect with his son is way too long and, in the end, largely irrelevant thanks to a pointless plot device.

As my mind started to wander at points I thought ‘that baby looks way too old for that pram’ and ‘why does he treat one prostitute he has just met like she’s Julia Roberts’ character from Pretty Woman but calls others ‘bitches’? and ‘does vitamin E really help with healing scars?’.

Cage is ok but, in the end, the overall result is not worth the time investment.