"They took my pig"
--"What kinda pig?"
"It's a truffle pig..."
--"...Motherf***ers."

Let me start this by saying; Pig is NOT Nicolas Cage does John Wick, and I’m not sure why I’m seeing it advertised as such. This is not an action movie and I'm not even sure it really earns an R-rating.

Pig follows Nicolas Cage the forest bum as he tracks down his stolen truffle pig and connects more deeply with his budding and naïve business partner. Along the way we learn more about this woodsman and what he means to the community he seems to have purposely escaped.

But... does it matter?

While not "bad" by any stretch, I certainly wouldn't call Pig "great" or even "good". It's a quality film to be sure -- score is consistent and meaningful, scenes are fairly pedestrian but well shot, solid performances all around -- but it certainly isn't an "entertaining" film. I kept expecting there to be some sort of revelation, something we didn't see coming about either Cage's character or his associate's, some breakdown of the archetypes that we're presented with right off the bat, or even maybe some comic relief... But, there just really isn't. By the end, the two have a better understanding of each other and we've learned some (ultimately meaningless) things about them as individuals, but the film takes SO long to get there... that it's almost entirely moot by that point.

With only a handful of meaningful moments before the first hour of the film, Pig spends more time rooting around in the dirt to find something to say than it does digging at your heart... or your truffles.

"We don't get a lot of things to really care about."