His soul is still dancing.”) or ingesting ungodly amounts of narcotics. The film delivers a stimulating hit of pure, uncut Cage, whether he’s spouting oddly poetic hard-boiled dialogue (“Shoot him again.
For this new take on the film, director Werner Herzog amps up the drug-addled energy and stages surreal tableaus, like the scene where Nic Cage’s corrupt cop hallucinates singing iguanas. The first Bad Lieutenant was a grimy crime flick with Harvey Keitel wallowing in all his miserable (and naked) glory. If you’re going to keep up with Nic Cage, it’s best to raise your filmmaking game to a 10 - and then push it all the way to 11.ĩ. He’s well matched by DePalma’s flashy camerawork and use of split screens, that help to capture every pulse-pounding moment.
With his flashy suits and frequent manic outbursts, Cage rattles nerves with his every move. Which is really saying something, considering the bizarro heights Cage has reached in his filmography.īefore you check out Prisoners of the Ghostland, take a strange trip through some of Nic Cage’s wildest big screen roles.īrian DePalma’s nail-biting conspiracy thriller never lets up, and neither does Nic Cage as a shady cop investigating an assassination during a high stakes boxing match. It's a gonzo slice of SciFi action filmmaking that Cage has called his “wildest movie” to date. And when Nic Cage is unhappy, things can get a little crazy.įrom the mind of acclaimed filmmaker Sion Sono, Prisoners of the Ghostland is set in a world filled with samurais, mutants, and more eye-popping oddities. If he fails, the explosives attached to his body will detonate, and as you can imagine, this doesn’t make him happy. In Prisoners of the Ghostland ( streaming now on AMC+), Cage stars as a criminal tasked with rescuing a woman stranded in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Over the course of his career, the acclaimed actor has delivered some truly outrageous performances in a bevy of boundary pushing films. Being a Nicolas Cage fan means never quite knowing what to expect.
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