This movie may not win any awards, but it is a solidly put together.

The story is interesting and different from the usual kind of 'narco' or 'cartel' type movie.

The acting by all of the cast is superb, with strong believable characters, and the production is good.

This isn't a kind of action everyone goes nuts kind of film - which is a good thing for this story.

Worth watching.

RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL isn't exactly a great Nicolas Cage movie, but compared to the other stuff he's been putting out this last year, it looks like a masterpiece. Cage is one of a number of familiar cast members in a small scale thriller about a drug lord tasking our hero with discovering which person in the supply chain has been stealing his product. It's all a little too dark and dour for its own good, but it does manage to approach the gravitas of the SICARIO films and the cast, including Barry Pepper and Cole Hauser, is great. Cage doesn't feature too much, or indeed impress too much, but a typically world weary Laurence Fishburne is fine.

Running With the Devil is another video on demand Nicolas Cage film. I bet the Oscar voters now wish they gave the best actor award to John Travolta all those years ago.

Cage is The Cook, so called because he really is a pizza cook. However he has been called in by drug kingpin, The Boss (Barry Pepper) to find out who's been adulterating his coke that has been killing addicts.

The Cook follows the drug trail all the way up from South America to Canada, each step he tests the quality of the coke.

The culprit is coke addict and hooker obsessed The Man (Laurence Fishburne) a sleazeball who realises that his time may be up so he needs to act fast to survive. Especially as the DEA are also on his tail.

This is a B movie with a showy cast. Cage is restrained while both Fishburne and Adam Goldberg as The Snitch ham it up.

It has some nasty violence and torture scenes just to underline how murderous these drug lords are to people who cheat them.

Running With the Devil wants to be a sprawling expose of the evils of the cocaine trade but it ends up being another formulaic and cheap looking thriller. Even its twist is predictable.