Ranking Every Nicolas Cage Movie Worst To Best

15. Bringing Out The Dead (1999)

Though not quite a top-shelf offering from either Cage or director Martin Scorsese, Bringing Out the Dead is nevertheless an uncommonly haunting drama, following an exhausted ambulance medic (Cage) as he begins to lose grip of his sanity.

Evocatively scripted by Scorsese regular Paul Schrader, it's truly brought to life by Scorsese's thick atmospheric fog, and a thermonuclear performance for the ages from Cage. But to be clear, its self-conscious grimness won't be for everyone.

14. Kick-Ass (2010)

Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass remains one of the most refreshing superhero movies of the last decade, a deliciously self-aware comic book romp which subverted countless genre tropes just as the Marvel Cinematic Universe was beginning to take true flight.

It's brilliantly performed from top to bottom, but what would it be without the thigh-slappingly hilarious turn from Cage as Batman-esque vigilante Big Daddy?

Ingeniously, Cage opted to play the part as a quasi-parody of Adam West, with an hilariously stilted vocal inflection which allowed him to steal every scene he was in.

Even outside of this, though, it's brilliantly brutal, totally hilarious, and introduced the world to the great Chloë Grace Moretz.