Released on Fat Tuesday eight years later, Will is greeted by a now fedora-sporting Harlend, who is still quite determined to bust the ace criminal on serious charges.
The loot's absence yields a shortened jail sentence for Will. Eventually, after much fancy driving and high-speed pursuit, Will turns himself in at a parking garage, but without the stolen money in his possession. The incident leaves Vincent with a bullet in his knee and Will without a getaway ride. The heist is complete and a clean escape imminent when Will has a disagreement with one of his longtime partners in crime, Vincent Kinsey (Josh Lucas). With the FBI, led by heavily invested agent Tim Harlend (Danny Huston), closely watching a jewelry store, Will and his three teammates break into a nearby bank, taking ten million dollars in cash. The film opens with a dark, overlong sequence in which Will Montgomery (Cage) does what he does best. It's set in New Orleans, features fast cars and eventually flames, and stars him as a morally ambiguous guy trying to do right. Stolen has all the ingredients of a post-2007 Nicolas Cage thriller. Even if Cage and West separately had much bigger and wider releases in 2012, the minimal impact of Stolen points to the diminished appeal of Cage and the genre he and West have favored over the years. Those numbers suggest the once-mighty have fallen. Last September, Cage and West's reunion project, the R-rated action movie Stolen, opened in just 141 theaters and managed to gross just $304 thousand.
In 1997, Nicolas Cage teamed up with first-time director Simon West on Con Air, an R-rated action movie that claimed nearly as many theaters as any film that year en route to a $101 million domestic gross that inflation adjusts to the equivalent of a potent $175 M today.
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