The 10 best Nicolas Cage movies, ranked! From Kick-Ass to Con Air
Nicolas Cage is many things: a Hollywood legend, a Coppola, a meme, a guy who named his first-born son after Superman's alien persona Kal-El. He's an actor known for never really turning down a role, and also giving some of the most over-the-top performances that cinema has ever seen (described by critics as 'Cage Rage'). Though Cage has a reputation for starring in some pretty bad movies, he's actually a pretty brilliant actor whose skills truly shine in dark dramatic films – and ones that don't take themselves too seriously.
The actor plays a fictionalized version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which finds him on the brink of retirement before accepting one last gig that involves spending time with a Cage-obsessed billionaire (Pedro Pascal) – who ends up being a lot more dangerous than he could have ever imagined.
Cage has made nearly three movies every year since 1982. That's roughly 119 movies over the span of 40 years. Needless to say, it was hard to narrow our favorites down to just ten – but we did our best. Scroll through our list of the best Nicholas Cage movies, ranked!
Kick-Ass, based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s comic book of the same name, stars Cage as a former NYPD officer turned Batman-inspired vigilante named Big Daddy. The film follows an ordinary teenager (Aaron Johnson) who sets out to become a real-life superhero and ends up joining forces with Big Daddy and his sword-wielding daughter Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz).
Cage channeled Adam West's 1960s campy, slapstick Batman (although West himself was apparently not a fan of Cage's impression). Though it's not Cage's first superhero movie (we don't need to talk about Ghost Rider), it is, by far, his best. The film
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