# Rage (2014 film)
**Rage**, also released under the title **Tokarev**, is a 2014 action crime thriller directed by Paco Cabezas and written by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, starring [Nicolas Cage](https://www.edgepedia.org/nicolas-cage) as Paul Maguire, a reformed criminal whose teenage daughter is kidnapped and murdered, prompting him to reassemble his old crew and hunt those he believes responsible.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/) • [2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Director and writers | Paco Cabezas; screenplay by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/) |
| Lead cast | Nicolas Cage (Paul Maguire), Rachel Nichols (Vanessa Maguire), Danny Glover (Det. Peter St. John), Peter Stormare (Francis O'Connell), Aubrey Peeples (Caitlin Maguire), Max Ryan (Kane)[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807/fullcredits/) |
| US release | May 9, 2014[4](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242310-rage?language=en-US) |
| Budget and revenue | $15,000,000 budget; $2,424,381 revenue[4](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242310-rage?language=en-US) |
| Critical reception | Metascore 28 (generally unfavorable) from 17 critics; Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 13% from 40 reviews[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/) • [2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014) |
| Runtime and rating | Listed as 92 minutes by RogerEbert.com and 98 minutes by Slant Magazine; rated NR by Slant and R by JustWatch[5](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rage-2014) • [6](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/rage-2014/) • [7](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/rage-2014) |
| Distributor | RLJ/Image Entertainment[6](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/rage-2014/) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Paul Maguire is a businessman in construction, married to Vanessa (Rachel Nichols) and devoted to his sixteen-year-old daughter Caitlin ([Aubrey Peeples](https://www.edgepedia.org/aubrey-peeples)). While Paul and Vanessa are at a dinner party, three intruders invade the house, wound Caitlin's friends Mike (Max Fowler) and Evan ([Jack Falahee](https://www.edgepedia.org/jack-falahee)), and abduct her. Detective Peter St. John ([Danny Glover](https://www.edgepedia.org/danny-glover)) brings Paul the news. Paul turns to his former crew, Kane (Max Ryan) and Danny Doherty (Michael McGrady), and presses small-time criminals for information. Caitlin is found dead in a park, and ballistics indicate that a Russian Tokarev pistol fired the fatal shots.[8](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rage/cast/2000204122/)
Believing the Russian mob has taken his daughter in revenge for his criminal past, Paul answers one act of violence with many more, and the film builds to a late third-act reveal that re-frames his behavior as misplaced.[6](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/rage-2014/) • [8](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rage/cast/2000204122/) The pistol's name supplies the film's alternate release title, Tokarev.[8](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rage/cast/2000204122/)
## Production and cast
The production carried a $15,000,000 budget against recorded revenue of $2,424,381.[4](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242310-rage?language=en-US) [Roger Moore](https://www.edgepedia.org/roger-moore)'s review for McClatchy-Tribune noted a noisy car chase filmed in [Mobile, Alabama](https://www.edgepedia.org/mobile-alabama), a location he described as a novelty outside the over-filmed Los Angeles.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/)
Cinematography was by Andrzej Sekula, the score was composed by Laurent Eyquem, and Robert A. Ferretti edited the film.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807/fullcredits/) Weston Cage, Nicolas Cage's son, played Young Paul in flashback.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807/fullcredits/) Despite being an independent film, the cast drew on many experienced names; Glenn Kenny, former chief film critic of *Premiere* magazine, singled out [Peter Stormare](https://www.edgepedia.org/peter-stormare), who had earlier worked with [Ingmar Bergman](https://www.edgepedia.org/ingmar-bergman), for his deliberately outsized performance.[5](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rage-2014) • [1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/)
## Reception
The film opened to broadly negative reviews. On Metacritic it scored 28, classified as generally unfavorable, with 11 of 17 critic reviews negative, 6 mixed, and none positive; the user score was 3.5 based on 30 ratings.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/) On Rotten Tomatoes the Tomatometer stood at 13% from 40 reviews, with a Popcornmeter score of 28% from more than 5,000 audience ratings.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014) The site's critics consensus called it "depressingly dull and all-around poorly made," a Nicolas Cage action thriller lacking the energy to reach "so bad it's good" territory.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014)
Several critics converged on similar complaints. Justin Chang of Variety wrote that the film piles on foreign accents and paint-by-numbers brutality with a self-seriousness that leaves Cage's antihero little room to maneuver.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014) David Hiltbrand of the Philadelphia Inquirer judged that "there isn't an original frame or line of dialogue in Rage."[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014) The A.V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky found the action sleepy and called Cage's one of his more moribund performances.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/) Reviewers differed on the twist ending: [Mike D](https://www.edgepedia.org/mike-d)'Angelo of The Dissolve granted that the film has something to say about the futility of vengeance once the climactic revelation re-contextualizes the story, while Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times argued the twist makes all the preceding mayhem feel intensely pointless.[9](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/critic-reviews/)
## References
1. [Rage Reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/)
2. [Tokarev (2014), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokarev_2014)
3. [Rage (2014) Full cast & crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807/fullcredits/)
4. [Rage (2014), The Movie Database](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242310-rage?language=en-US)
5. [Rage movie review & film summary, RogerEbert.com](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rage-2014)
6. [Review: Rage, Slant Magazine](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/rage-2014/)
7. [Rage streaming: where to watch online?, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/rage-2014)
8. [Rage Full Cast & Crew, TV Guide](https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rage/cast/2000204122/)
9. [Rage critic reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rage-2014/critic-reviews/)
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