Sandwiched between Vampire’s Kiss and Wild at Heart is an Italian film largely forgotten by critics and audiences alike that is the only project Nicolas Cage has ever done outside of the Hollywood system and is nearly impossible to get your hands on these days. So why does this film exist? Was Vampire’s Kiss so detrimental to Cage’s career that he had to go to the other side of the planet to get a leading role? We’ll find out as we dive deep into the 1989 Italian film Tempo di uccidere or as it’s known in the US Time to Kill.

An Italian Army Lieutenant takes a short cut back to his unit in Africa after trying and failing to find a dentist but things go off the rails hard and fast for him in a series of bizarre, awful and tragic events of his own making.

Time to Kill stars Academy Award nominated Italian voice and screen actor Giancarlo Giannini (best known in the US as French Agent Rene Mathis in the Daniel Craig James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace but is also the go to voice actor for Al Pacino redubs in Italian), Italian actor turned director Ricky Tognazzi, French actress Patrice Flora Praxo, and of course, Italian American Academy Award winning actor and scourge of Ethipoia Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.