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No matter what anyone tries to say , Nicolas Cage is a neat actor . He played an boozer trying to kill himself in a heartbreaking drama that won him an Academy Award and he also successfully satirized Batman alongside a 13 - year - former girl saying the C - word , so it ’s secure to say that this is an actor with some serious range . There may be a handful of dud on his résumé , but that seems to be more to do with his trouble saying “ no ” than his act power .
He ’s work with Michael Bay , but he ’s also work withRidley Scottandthe Coen blood brother . So , here are his five good motion-picture show … and five big .
Best:Leaving Las Vegas
As the movie that won Nic Cage his Academy Award , this one is an obvious entry on the list . Still , it ’s a grotesque movie , anchored entirely by its two steer performance : Elisabeth Shue play a struggling prostitute and John Cage playing an alcohol-dependent author specify to invest suicide . As his life-time comes to an end , he suddenly discover import in it as he falls in love with Shue ’s character . When it ’s too late , he realizes he has something to live for . The story is tragic , and it could ’ve easily failed if Cage did n’t commit , but gratefully , he did and it resulted in a terrific film .
Worst:Ghost Rider
Nicolas Cage is a womb-to-tomb comic Word fan , andhe was even cast to play Superman in a Tim Burton moviethat got delete for enough reasons thatthere was a whole docudrama made about it . But woefully , when he finally did get to play an iconic superhero from the pages of amusing leger , it was as a unholy grapheme whose dark root word were reprehensively watered down by a studio apartment depend for a more commercially workable PG-13 rating .
Now that moving-picture show likeDeadpoolandLoganhave been successful , Cage should get another crack at the role with R - rated freedom – if the fans will allow it .
Best:Kick-Ass
While Nicolas Cage ’s endeavor at star in a serious superhero movie might have die , his try at playing a supporting role in a satirical one was much more successful . Based on the Mark Millar comic of the same name , Kick - Assis an action at law - packed drollery about what would happen if a nerdy high school day Thomas Kid actually decided to become a superhero . John Cage plays Big Daddy , a spoof of Batman , and his pitching - perfect rescue of his lines evokes a few different Batmen . When he ’s in the costume , playing the character of Big Daddy , he comes off asfull Christian Bale badass . But when he ’s the balmy - mannered alter ego Damon Macready , he channel Adam West . It ’s screaming .
Worst:8MM
This thriller about a private optic who stumbles into a disconsolate compositor’s case involving snuff films has a lot of promise from its themes and plot , but there ’s no suspense attach to the brutally violent sequences . So , it ’s fairly much just wildness for violence ’s sake . Plus , the flickering film projector blot out Nic Cage for most of the movie , so even if there is a nuanced carrying out , we ca n’t really see it . playfulness side - note : My film broth - obsess film school day lecturer was rent as a consultant on this movie , and since it was his only claim to fame , he never stop talking about it .
Best:Matchstick Men
Matchstick Menis one of the most underrated movies in recent years and it also end with one of the most jaw - dropping and shockingly plausible plot of land twists ever conceived on motion-picture show . Nicolas Cage stars alongside Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman in a in darkness comic thriller about gyp Isle of Man and betrayals and fellowship and double crosses and deceit . Most dour comedy lean to flip emotion out the window – that ’s part of what makes it a dark comedy in the first place – but that always feels as though something ’s leave out . Matchstick Menmanages to have a cynical edge and still feel emotionally remindful .
Worst:Knowing
Knowingis an interesting , engage apocalyptic thriller until its net moments . There are thrill in the plane crash sequence , which was shot inventively in a Steadicam long take , andthe central mystery is call for – until it ’s resolved . The picture ’s central problem is thatthe ending ruin it . An exotic force shows up and Nic Cage just tell his son to go with them , and allows Earth to be destroyed in the summons . Nothing is really explained and a set of the movie ’s elements do n’t add together up . Rose Byrne does her good to lend some aesthetic meritoriousness to this movie , but it ’s flawed from the ground up .
Best:Adaptation
There are a few reasons whyAdaptationsucceeds . It ’s directed by the visionary Spike Jonze , it hasan inventive script by Charlie Kaufmanthat toys with the cloth of what it even means to be a motion-picture show , and it equilibrate the story of a guy cable accommodate a book into a movie and the tale of the book itself deftly .
But the movie ’s great asset is its lead worker , Nicolas Cage , who plays duplicate brothers . One is a chubby , insecure nonstarter and the other is a happy , fragile , optimistic go - getter . Few thespian could pull off two character in the same movie like Cage does in this one . It ’s mesmerizing .
Worst:G-Force
The worst kids ’ motion-picture show tend to be the ones that underestimate their interview . If you ’re making a film for Kyd and assume that all kid are obtuse with a juvenile horse sense of humor and little outlook from their trips to the movies , then you ’ll finish up with something as mind - numbingly dull and insubstantial asG - Force . This CGI - laden spy ‘ clowning ’ about an elite squad of clandestine agents who happen to be guinea pigs and are determined to save the man from a maniacal billionaire is n’t an original thought – it ’s a rip - off ofCats and Dogs , and it ’s not even as serious .
Best:Raising Arizona
A set of Nicolas Cage ’s good movies are funniness . It seems that his most earnest acting is inherently laughable , so when he tries to give a spectacular performance , it come off as laughable , and when he judge to give a comedic performance , every strain is delivered perfectly and he fits seamlessly into the tone of the flick . The okay presentation of this is in the Coen brothers’Raising Arizona , the history of an ex - inmate and his sterile police officer wife who decide to abduct one of a robust guy ’s newborn quintuplets when they realize they ca n’t have kids of their own . The moviemakes hysterical use of slapstick humorand Cage bear it brilliantly .
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Worst:Next
Some Nic Cage movies are so unabashedly bad that they diminish intothe so - bad - it’s - good categorythat was created by such famously terrible cult classics asThe RoomandBattlefield Earth(a.k.a . Scientology : The Movie ) . An example of a movie that take itself seriously and wants to be a sci - fi classic and is terrible , yet does n’t fall into the so - bad - it’s - good category due to how lazy and unremarkable it is , isNextstarring none other than Nicolas Cage . purportedly accommodate fromthe seminal works of Philip K. Dick , this sci - fi actioner is a far cry from the likes ofBlade RunnerandMinority Report . Nextseems confused by itself , which is a rare feat , but not an impressive one .
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