CAGE (1989) : Bada-Bing, Bada-Boom, He’s Got Brain Trauma

This week, we dove fists-first into Cage—a movie that’s part underground fight club, part insensitive fever dream, and 100% baffling. Starring Lou Ferrigno as a brain-damaged Vietnam vet and Reb Brown as the most aggressively '80s sidekick(?) imaginable, this film raises a lot of questions—mostly: “How did this get made?” and “Why is this so casually offensive?” and "Who is this for?".We unpack the film’s uneasy relationship with the Asian community, explore how our so-called "heroes" manipulate a mentally handicapped man into cage fighting for profit, and somehow still find time to marvel at Ferrigno's sincere performance trapped in a movie that has no idea what tone it’s going for.Bring your disbelief and a stiff drink. You're gonna need both.