Red Rock West - mistaken identity strikes again!

In Red Rock West, Cage plays a down-on-his luck former U.S. Marine by the name of Michael Williams. Williams is unemployed, presumably due to some ambiguous-but-undoubtedly-received-in-the-line-of-duty leg injury, but not due to a lack of work ethic or morals, as the film takes pains to demonstrate when he resists the temptation to grab some cash left lying around in an apparently deserted gas station, or to hide his leg issues when applying for a job.

He basically lives in his car, a fact established by the fact that he has an entire "morning-get-ready-for-a-job-interview-to-kick-off-the-movie" scene, all in his car at the side of a lonely Wyoming road.

Williams's moral compass wavers when a bartender assumes that he is "Lyle from Dallas" arriving at his bar for "the job". Assuming (he says) that it's just a regular barroom job, he has a moment of weakness and tells Wayne (the villain of the piece) that he is, indeed, Lyle, and he's here about the job, which turns out to be the murder of Wayne's wife Suzanne.

Wayne, the bartender

Turns out, Suzanne also wants Wayne dead, so she offers Williams even more money to spare her life and take that of her why-is-he-still-her-husband (it's because she's newly rich, by the way), which he accepts, only so far as to take the money and try to leave town, after writing a hastily scrawled note to the local sheriff explaining the convoluted situation.

Anyway, things start to go really "holy-crap-how-can-this-many-terrible-coincidences-happen-to-one-guy" when Williams takes a guy he hits with his car to the hospital, it turns out the guy was shot before he ran into him, and the sheriff is called.

Who is also Wayne.

Wayne, the sheriff

So things continue along those lines, with Williams running into Dennis "Lyle from Dallas" Hopper along the way and all kinds of other crazy shenanigans. The wife, incidentally, is Lara Flynn Boyle, and she's also crazy. The two run off together, and he throws her from a train after a pretty epic graveyard fight scene standoff. Dennis Hopper is a difficult man to kill, as it turns out.

All in all, not a bad movie. I'd watch it, if I hadn't just finished watching it.