The story follows Cage, a down-on-his-luck movie actor haunted by the memory of his deceased career. He meets Julie, a spiritually gifted movie producer who enlists Cage in a desperate effort to find the lost profits of her comatose studio. But the spirit of Cage's dead career proves stronger, possessing the young woman's film budget and determined to sabotage her unfinished movie with the straight-to-DVD curse.

5/10 So bad it's entertaining.

I stumbled upon the 2018 fantasy thriller by random chance in 2021. And since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, and the fact that my wife is a fan of Nicolas Cage - for God knows what reason - I ended up sitting down to watch "Between Worlds".

And I found myself to be between words. This movie was just strange, even for a Nicolas Cage movie. Sure, some of the concepts of the storyline was interesting, but the movie was just painfully awkward to sit through, especially with the thing going on between Joe (played by Nicolas Cage) and Billie (played by Penelope Mitchell).

The story told in "Between Worlds" was somewhat of a stretch. Sure, there were the whole thing with a spirit coming back to inhabit a different body which was interesting, but most of the rest of the storyline sort of fell short of being entertaining.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate, at least the ones put on by Franka Potente and Penelope Mitchell. "Between World" does not rank among any of the top performances put on by Nicolas Cage, no, in fact it was cringeworthy to watch him stumble through this movie.

"Between Worlds" is a movie that came and went without leaving much of any lasting impression, and while having sat through the entire movie, I can honestly say that this is not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time. Just another run-of-the-mill notch in the belt in the acting performance of Mr. Nicolas Cage.

My rating of writer and director Maria Pulera's 2018 movie "Between Worlds" lands on a generous less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

Joe (Nicolas Cage) is a truck driver down on his luck. He drinks and smokes pot. His wife and daughter passed in a house fire. He runs into Julie (Franka Potente) who has the ability to die and see dead spirits. Her daughter Billie (Penelope Mitchell) dies in the hospital and Julie dies to bring her back. Instead of bringing back Billie, she gets Mary, Joe's wife.

Yes, the film goes there and then goes nowhere. Joe has sex with Julie and then her daughter who is his wife. At this point, the scriptwriter died. Rather than create an exciting revenge film, going after some unknown killer we didn't know existed, we have a stupid farce.

I thought this was going to a cross between "Pay the Ghost" and "Ghost Ride." Instead, it was Lolita with a twist.

Guide: F-word, sex, brief nudity.