Nicolas Cage has had one of the more infuriating career trajectories of any talented actor working today: for every great performance, he turns in about five terrible ones, but his 2010 role in Kick-Ass was a true revelation. Cage plays superhero Big Daddy, a deranged former cop who has trained his young daughter, Hit-Girl, to become a crime-fighter just like himself. Cage's eccentricity is one of his finest assets as an actor (allowing him to be great fun to watch in even pretty terrible films), and here he milks it for all it's worth. The most notable characteristic of his persona (besides being kitted out in a Batman-esque outfit) is that Cage reads his dialogue in a bizarre cadence that's instantly reminiscent of Adam West, who of course played Batman in the camp 1960s TV series. Cage is clearly having a blast camping it up, and this fun translates directly to the audience. That said, Cage is also great in his brief spurts of action, and when he's eventually killed near the end of the movie, it's too damn soon.