![]() ![]() ![]() With his Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation days behind him, Cage has become a parody of himself, a movie star that’s not exactly that and an off-putting performer whose strengths (most of all his unwavering commitment and intensity in every role) are almost never well-used by moviemakers.Īlmost every movie in this list dates after 2010, and that’s a reflection of Cage’s declining taste in projects, or Hollywood’s declining interest in offering him good parts – you pick.ĭirected by Roger Donaldson, the guy that made The Bank Job and No Way Out, and gifted with a crazy script including a deep-buried conspiracy funded in a sense of thwarted justice and vengeance, Seeking Justice had everything to be at least an agreeable thriller. Nowadays, he favors the quick money he makes from smaller productions, mostly playing weird characters included in an even weirder script, and not in a good way. ![]() The Oscar-winning Californian actor, a nephew of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and an ex-husband of actress Patricia Arquette (he’s currently married for 12 years with a former waitress two decades younger than him), has long been gone from prestige flicks and auteur cinema. When was the last time you saw a good movie starring Nicolas Cage? Not a so-bad-it’s-good movie, not a bad movie in which his crazy performance is enjoyable more as a meme-making machine then as anything else, but a genuinely good movie. ![]()
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