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Neurotic, anxious, and a germaphobe, Cage performs a small time criminal imprisoned by his personal psychological limitations—that are all exacerbated when he learns he has a teenage daughter named Angela (Alison Lohman). Against his will, Angie motion pictures in, and the movie turns into a light-weight familial comedy a few extremely dysfunctional father-daughter dynamic as he teaches her the household enterprise. It’s additionally one of the vital interesting star autos from the period the place Cage was on the top of his Hollywood reputation. The entire ensemble, which incorporates Sam Rockwell, has a lot chemistry you can’t even see how the film is hoodwinking you. – David Crow
14. Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
This principally forgotten 1989 movie a few dangerous boy literary agent who believes he’s been became vampire has roared again to life within the YouTube period, as movie followers giddily shared scene after scene of Cage’s most unhinged performing up to now. From donning pretend vampire enamel to consuming a (actual) cockroach, to operating via the streets of New York screaming “I’m a Vampire,” Cage absolutely commits to the function and takes an expressionistic strategy to portraying a person’s descent into insanity.
In the movie, Cage’s protagonist would possibly reside within the literary world however he’s satisfied he’s a bonafide ‘80s yuppie on par with Gordon Gekko or Patrick Bateman. He snorts cocaine, he hangs out at nightclubs to select up ladies, and… he turns into satisfied he’s turning into the titular vampire from 1922’s Nosferatu. This may be all in his head, nevertheless it doesn’t save his victims. It’s campy and unintentionally humorous, certain, nevertheless it’s additionally weirdly magnetic. There’s really nothing prefer it. – Nick Harley
13. Mandy (2018)
Landing squarely within the midst of Cage’s misplaced decade—when he was showing in nearly each direct-to-video launch that he might with a purpose to repay large private money owed—Mandy stood out from the deluge of different Cage-starrers and arguably started a mini-renaissance of the actor’s profession and demanding acceptance. He stars right here in director Panos Cosmatos’ psychedelic horror outing as Red Miller, a lumberjack whose artist spouse Mandy is murdered by a non secular cult after she refuses to present into the cult chief’s sexual advances. Driven to extremes by grief and rage, Red units out to avenge himself on the cult and the demonic, drug-fueled biker gang who function their enforcers.
Shot to intentionally evoke the usually freaky horror and motion thrillers of the Nineteen Seventies, infused with graphic violence, and once more anchored by a splendidly demented but advanced efficiency by Cage, Mandy has trendy cult basic written throughout it. – Don Kaye
12. Kick-Ass (2010)
By the tip of the 2000s, Cage’s profession was at an ambiguous place. He nonetheless starred in Hollywood motion motion pictures, however they more and more regarded just like the trashy Ghost Rider superhero flicks as a substitute of his heyday as a John Woo muse within the ‘90s. Meanwhile his extra attention-grabbing, dramatic works had (for a time) dried up. 2010 turned that round for some time with the vast releases of Bad Lieutenant and Kick-Ass, the latter of which on paper appears like one other trashy superhero joint. And maybe it was throughout the comedian ebook panels of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., the place Kick-Ass was created, however within the fingers of director Matthew Vaughn, the fabric turned a zippy, genre-bending motion spectacle in the identical vein as Grindhouse.
