I agree, I don't know if it's just the accent though, it's pretty much his entire performance. The accent is AWFUL, nobody sounds like that from anywhere except Nicky Coppola phoning it in. If he was not in this movie, and someone else in his place, it would certainly improve things. Malkatraz and Steve Buscemi on the other hand are good enough to more than make up for it in my opinion.
Sometimes Cage is terrible beyond belief and other times he's so great you don't dare look away. Perhaps he needs serious coddling by a skilled director(s)
Movies he is great in:
Raising Arizona
Wild at Heart
Leaving Las Vegas
Adaptation
No lad who has liberty for the first time, and twenty guineas in his pocket, is very sad, and Barry rode towards Dublin thinking not so much of the kind mother left alone, and of the home behind him, but of tomorrow, and all the wonders it would bring.
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myhootietoot
10 years ago
I love him in those same movies. He should stick to the quirky character. Trying to be hot is in my opinion not his forte. He also needs to stop taking every job offered. He should stick to what really works for him. He could be sexy without being offered overtly sexy roles. I thought he was okay in The Frozen Ground. I don't hate him, I sometimes love him. He was also great in Moonstruck.
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