Ranking Every Nicolas Cage Movie Worst To Best

By Jack Pooley /

89. The Humanity Bureau (2017)

VMI Worldwide

Pure garbage even for low-budget genre film standards. Sure, it elicits the occasional chuckle, but in pure filmmaking terms it might be the most technically slapdash and visually hideous film in Cage's entire filmography.

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The screenplay meanwhile evokes the vibe of the average SyFy or Asylum movie populating your local truck stop bargain bin, and the entire enterprise is distressingly low on bats**t Cage moments.

88. Fire Birds (1990)

Buena Vista

By 1990, Nicolas Cage certainly should've known better than to hedge his bets on a Top Gun knock-off, which despite touting a decidedly bigger budget than Tony Scott's 1986 classic, was widely panned by critics and largely ignored by audiences.

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Though Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young class proceedings up somewhat, this is shockingly limp, even dull, for a film focused on a helicopter pilot attempting to take down a South American drug cartel.