Anyone who has experienced 1993’s “Deadfall” in full understands: Nicolas Cage’s turn in it is as impossible to hate as the rest of the movie is to enjoy. You can get Cage’s greatest hits from “Deadfall” out of a YouTube compilation without creating permanent record that you, one day, paid $2.99 to rent it like someone you might know. Yet it’s somehow not the same as stomaching the shit sandwiched around Cage’s magnificently gale-force turn as Eddie King — a low-end confidence man with a Dollar General wig, an Italian-Scottish-whatever accent clearly ADR’d after the fact so Cage could do what suited him, a patois that pairs Fire Marshal Bill and Billy Madison, the style of Tony Clifton and the short fuse of Frank Booth. That the rest is so terrible only makes Cage more impressive. Rarely has an actor so entertainingly torpedoed the more serious efforts of everyone else around him.
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Anyone who has experienced 1993’s “Deadfall” in full understands: Nicolas Cage’s turn in it is as impossible to hate as the rest of the movie is to enjoy. You can get Cage’s greatest hits from “Deadfall” out of a YouTube compilation without creating permanent record that you, one day, paid $2.99 to rent it like someone you might know. Yet it’s somehow not the same as stomaching the shit sandwiched around Cage’s magnificently gale-force turn as Eddie King — a low-end confidence man with a Dollar General wig, an Italian-Scottish-whatever accent clearly ADR’d after the fact so Cage could do what suited him, a patois that pairs Fire Marshal Bill and Billy Madison, the style of Tony Clifton and the short fuse of Frank Booth. That the rest is so terrible only makes Cage more impressive. Rarely has an actor so entertainingly torpedoed the more serious efforts of everyone else around him.