Ranking Every Nicolas Cage Movie Worst To Best

71. Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)

Christmas Carol The Movie Nicolas Cage
Pathe Distribution

Yes, Trapped In Paradise isn't the only Yuletide film Cage has lent his name to, having also played a small voice role in the 2001 animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Cage voices Scrooge's dead business partner Jacob Marley, and though he certainly brings an aptly haunting quality to the part, as a whole the movie is surely one of the most tepid and emotionally unengaging adaptations ever made.

70. Dying Of The Light (2014)

Nicolas Cage Dying of the light
Lionsgate

As appealing as the pairing of writer-director Paul Schrader with Cage seemed on paper, Dying of the Light is destined to be remembered more for its infamous behind-the-scenes creative disagreements than the final shoddy product itself.

Cage is certainly capable here as a government agent losing his mind to dementia, and he demonstrates solid screen chemistry with the late Anton Yelchin, but the bones of the plot are disappointingly formulaic drama-thriller fare.

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