I watched it with a friend who checked out halfway through because it wasn't the movie she was hoping it would be-basically “ John Wick,” but with a pig, wherein a long-haired forest hermit named Rob ( Nicolas Cage) gets bloody revenge against the criminals who kidnapped his truffle-hunting best friend. There are aspects of it that cannot be said to 'work' in any conventional filmmaking sense, but it's hard to imagine that the writer/director, Michael Sarnoski, and its star and co-producer, Nicolas Cage, lost a minute of sleep over anything like that, and its commitment to its own oddball vision is what makes it linger in the mind. From start to finish, it never moves as you might expect it to. What a beguiling, confounding film 'Pig' is.
