Worst To Best: Nicolas Cage
The master of manic…
Kick-Ass (2010)
T he Movie: Wonderfully knowing love letter to comic books, based on Mark Millar’s achingly cool comic series, with Aaron Johnson playing the eponymous hero.
So Cage It’s Good? Cage manages to bring gravitas to the role of Big Daddy even though he spends the entire film doing an extended Adam West impression. It’s hilarious and surprisingly touching at the same time.
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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.