Nicolas Cage characters from The Wicker Man and Left Behind
With a towering legacy as an actor, and a body of work that includes movies of vastly different levels of quality, Nicolas Cage is one of the most respected, prolific, and distinctive of his generation. His commitment to the craft of acting has made him something of a living meme, but he’s far more than just a punchline, given how many great performances he’s given and the countless times he’s perfectly understood the assignment at hand.
The dialogue and pacing in 211 is atrocious, both working in tandem to make it feel closer to 211 minutes in length, rather than the brief-sounding 86 minutes it purportedly is. It covers a stand-off between bank robbers and police that ensues after a heist gone wrong, and trudges along with surprisingly little urgency or vibrancy… but for as bad as it is, there are worse offerings to be found within the Cage back catalog.
Running with the Devil is populated by mostly unnamed characters, with Cage playing “The Cook” and Fishburne playing “The Man” . Everyone’s as uninteresting as the titles they’re given in the end credits, and the film overall lacks momentum and even a sense of purpose. Worst of all, it’s one of the few Nicolas Cage movies where the man himself even seems checked out, making it hard to recommend to even his most passionate fans.
Horror comedies like Renfield and the aforementioned Willy’s Wonderland don’t really count, so it all falls on Pay the Ghost to demonstrate what Cage is capable of in a movie featuring supernatural forces and with a setting on Halloween.
4 'Outcast' Director: Nick Powell Nicolas Cage has starred in some of the best action movies of all time, and was particularly dominant within the genre during the late 1990s. After all, it was at this stage of Cage’s career that he managed to grace the world with performances in films like The Rock , Face/Off , and Con Air , all hyper-masculine, over-the-top, and gloriously spectacular examples of maximalist action.
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