OKAY, WELL HERE'S THE TWIST -- WE FIND OUT THAT THE KILLER REALLY SUFFERS FROM MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER, RIGHT? SEE, HE'S ACTUALLY REALLY THE COP AND THE GIRL. ALL OF THEM ARE HIM: Writing for the Washington Post, John Anderson wants to know what happened to Nicolas Cage -- once perhaps "the most interesting actor in American movies" but with so much of his post-Leaving Las Vegas career bearing "the infernal reek of sulfur, brimstone and gross receipts .... with few detours from the action star/blockbuster track upon which Cage has trod with particularly graceless aplomb, and virtually no humor at all, except on top of his head, where his hair is continual source of mirth and mystery, because you never know what it's going to do, where it's going to go or to whom it once belonged."
Still, Adaptation wasn't that long ago, and World Trade Center was certainly a story worth telling. Still, in the decade-plus since he made Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock and Face/Off in a row, after a career that began with beloved manic classics like Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona, Valley Girl and Honeymoon in Vegas ("I know that NOW!"), what the hell happened?
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