Good Lord, I wanted to slap him he was so annoying.
Who acts like anyone acts like that? He was way off the charts with the 'crazy cop' thing. I found it distracting. I like him but I think he was bad in this.
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It did seem a bit over the top, the only people i've ever seen act like that were drug addicts on opiates and amphetamines, usually adderall. I can't remember if it was mentioned or not if Cage's character had a drug problem, but his eccentric, highly over stimulated actions were almost identical to someone speedballing.
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Excruciatingly over-acted.
shareHahaha I was thinking the same thing. Sounded like an idiot on the stair case w carla
shareCage does stuff like this. He's kind of meta-acting. He's playing a guy who is over-acting. The over-the-top stuff you see at the beginning is his character putting on a show.
If that's not clear, consider this.
In "Vampire's Kiss", Cage plays a character who speaks with a really whining high voice. But this isn't the character's actual voice, it's just something he's affecting because he thinks it's cool. Similarly, Cage isn't saying that the freakishly extroverted stuff his character does at the beginning of the film is this person's natural character so much as it's a shtick that this character does to dominate the room from time to time. He's a cop, a corrupt one at that, trying to project an enormous personality.
Of course this theory is a great excuse for Cage to just ham it up for a half hour. But I do think it's not just what he's doing as an actor, but what he's having his character do as a character.
The reporters at the end ask him about cocaine outside his house while he's driving away in his yellow convertible.
He acts the same way in Bad Cop: Port of Call New Orleans. He plays a coke head corrupt cop even crazier in that movie.
I loved his acting at the beginning. Made the opening that much more memorable.
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Hahaha you guys never been to a boxing fight have you?
Well, the way Cage was acting in the beginnnig definitely wants to make go watch another boxing fight live. Guys, boxing fights are insanely energetic environments and we men like nothing more than to see two guys duke out. The way Cage was behaving was funny because that's how I react when me and my family do BBQ just before watching the boxing fights on PPV. So trust me, it's not over the top they he was acting. You have to go to one of these fights to understand the energy that Cage was feeling. Very very accurate in my opinion!
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It was classic Cage at the beginning and I liked it. The only part of his acting that bothered me was after he got beaten up and was struggling to walk...he was trying way too hard.
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