Some say De Niro has been phoning it in for years now but he can still be quite good (See: Silver Linings Playbook). However, I watched Righteous Kill and boy did I feel both he and Pacino were phoning it in but I guess that film had a lot of issues.
Nicolas Cage has been a good, sometimes very good actor but Knowing was a pretty awful performance and there's many others.
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