Where's Nicolas Cage? Not Playing At A Theater Near You Twin Cities

It's time to take a trip back in time to an era when Friends ruled the airwaves, and nobody had even heard of Perez Hilton. His best-rated films like "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse" (2010) and "Love, Antosha" (2019) were adored by critics. No one can play Nicolas Cage better than Cage himself. Despite being directed by a former stuntman, 2017's Vengeance: A Love Story is another prime example of a seemingly phoned-in Cage performance.

Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen star in Outcast,” a China co-production that was pulled from theaters. Milton (Nicolas Cage) has somehow broken out of Hell. Because Joe is played by Nicolas Cage, you can imagine how well that goes. Nicolas Cage has been in a lot of movies over the course of his more than 30-year career.

When it comes to Cage, there's no avoiding the obvious: he has made a whole heap of ridiculous and trashy movies. Critics Consensus: Breezy and well-acted, Matchstick Men focuses more on the characters than on the con. The only saving grace is Hugh Dillon as the bad guy, who exudes the manic energy Cage should have brought to this low-grade dumpster fire.

The one minor quibble I would have is that the rating of a movie doesn't necessarily correspond to the actor's performance, since I've seen some great performances in utterly horrible stories. Unfortunately, Cage's uninterested performance earned him a Razzie nomination and the film a poor reputation.

In Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986), a time-traveling romance from Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner as a middle-aged woman who magically (or imaginarily) returns to high school, Mr. Cage plays both the title character's estranged husband and his 1960 teenage self.

One terribly under mentioned good Nicholas Cage movie is Peggy Sue Got Married. I'd not go as far as to argue that Cage shrunken pygmy heads is always great, even in his "serious" roles; in the independent film Joe, his performance is overwrought and burdened by signing onto a film with a bad script.