Yeah, 'Sorceror's Apprentice' could have been better, but 'Kick-***' and 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans' are easily two of Nic Cage's best roles ever, regardless of box office intake, those were legitimately great movies. read more
Cage's three most baroque roles have been as the dying, grandiose drunk in Leaving Las Vegas; the coke-addled cop in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant; and, most memorably perhaps, the deranged creep in Vampire's Kiss, in some ways the quintessential Cage movie and the main source of scenes for the internet montage Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit, in which, at one stage, Cage is literally chewing the scenery. read more