11 Actors Who (Hopefully) Killed Their Careers In 2014

3. Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage has had one of the most bizarre and strangely intriguing careers of any Hollywood actor in history. Despite winning a Best Actor Oscar and working with practically every director worth working with, his enormous tax bill has seen him star in increasingly blatant paycheque roles over the last 5 years or so, even deigning to join the depressing straight-to-DVD and VOD action flick club. His only real success of any kind this year was with the release of a carry-over from the 2013 festival circuit, David Gordon Green's Joe, which earned Cage his best reviews in years (86%), though still failed to make back its $4 million budget As for the rest? Rage (previously known as Tokarev) went straight-to-VOD in most territories despite a $25 million budget and was largely panned (14%), while biblical disaster flick Left Behind is one of the worst-reviewed films of the year (2%) and made $19.7 million in box office reciepts, just marginally above its budget. Finally, there's Dying of the Light, which suffered huge production issues as writer-director Paul Schrader wrestled with producers over the final cut of the film, causing Cage, Schrader and others to publicly disown the released product. It was, again, destroyed by reviewers (5%), such that it's difficult to believe Schrader could've ever made anything good out of it at all.