they came they saw they fell flat on
their face welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 actors who tried and failed
in action movies let’s go
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
ranking the actors or celebrities with
acting aspirations whose attempts at
action movie gold fell short of bronze
for the record we’re not saying all of
these movies are bad but rather taking a
light-hearted look at actors whose
translation into the action movie world
was generally seen by the public as
debatable will you help me number 10
Alicia Silverstone Batman and Robin
Alfred it’s me
Barbara this legendary superhero bust
stalled many careers when it was
released back in 1997 with Batman and
Robin effectively halting any hopes
co-star Alicia Silverstone might have
had about a career in action movies
the film’s ultra campy tone and overtly
jokey execution effectively killed the
Batman franchise for years as well with
Silverstone’s performances Batgirl
adding little if anything to the
proceedings pretty good at this little
girl well watch and learn little boy it
would be unfair to lay the blame for
Batman and Robin’s failure solely on
Silverstone Nana’s plenty of blame to go
around after all but this doesn’t change
the fact that the actress just didn’t
seem cut out for the action movie game
chicks like you give women a bad name
number nine Pamela Anderson barbed wire
don’t call me
barbed wire knew exactly what it was
when it was released back in 1996 male
teenage fantasy fodder featuring Pamela
Anderson lots of guns and some very big
explosions the film was based upon a
Dark Horse comic book series with
Anderson playing the role of the titular
heroine
neither do i the film didn’t please
audiences or critics however with many
pointing to Anderson’s OneNote
performance and dry delivery as sticking
points in this box office bomb still
barbed wire is fun enough when you’re in
the right mood but Andersen would fail
to achieve any sort of action movie
success in the wake of its release
number 8 Brian Bosworth stone-cold you
gotta clean up one out for those
searching for some action movie lunacy
need look no further than 1991 s
stone-cold an enjoyably ridiculous
collection of tough-guy cliches starring
the one and only Brian Bosworth Bosworth
had previously made his name in the NFL
but stone-cold was supposed to be his
breakout role in the action movie
mainstream
[Music]
fans and critics didn’t flock to see the
Boz however and stone-cold flopped at
the box office b-movie fans did later
latch on to the film on home video but
Bosworth star never truly ignited
although the former Seattle Seahawks
still act on the indie scene to this day
imagine the future chains
[Music]
number seven taylor lautner abduction
and traceurs ma taylor lautner we know
you’re trying hard to escape from your
twilight past but the actors
performances in the 2011 film abduction
and 2015’s tracers are just that
attempts abduction was loud nurse first
proper crack at action movie stardom as
an adult and received scathing reviews
concerning the actor’s wooden
performance and lack of charisma
Fraser’s unfortunately didn’t fare much
better with Lautner implausibly starring
as a bike messenger who ends up running
with a parkour gang in New York City
when doing don’t don’t move the time may
come when Jacob Berg Taylor finally
becomes an actual action movie
heavyweight but it will definitely take
better movies than these to get the job
done number six Ice Cube xxx State of
the Union welcome to the first taint
jacket in history not even ice cube
could save the xxx franchise in 2005
when the rapper turned actor decided to
fill the shoes vacated by Vin Diesel to
be fair the xxx state of the union did
bring back a small return against its
sixty million dollar budget but critics
were split on cubes performance as an
action hero while fans mourn the loss of
diesel from the franchise they would get
their wish over a decade later however
with xxx return of xander cage
reigniting the film series bringing both
cube and diesel back for another round
I could definitely make that work
number five Tyler Perry Alex Cross you
got a respect writer actor and director
Tyler Perry for attempting to try
something new by taking part in the 2012
film Alex Cross it couldn’t have been
easy for Perry to step into a role that
was not only based on a beloved book
series by James Patterson but had also
previously been portrayed on screen by
Morgan Freeman I think you just have a
mama desire to burn in hell
fans of Perry’s Madea franchise however
stayed away from Alex Cross and the film
ended up as both a critical and
commercial failure despite Perry’s best
intentions is this what you want to die
doing today number four Chris Klein
rollerball what are you talking about
remaking a cult classic usually isn’t
the best idea
especially when the film was as niche as
the 1975 sci-fi oddity rollerball that
movie starred Hollywood heavyweight
James Caan however while viewers of the
2002 version were forced to settle for
American Thai actor Chris Klein
[Music]
the rollerball remake was panned by fans
and critics alike mainly because it
lacked the Kitsch 70s cool and
socio-political themes of the original
appliance performance in the film was
considered blend and not up to snuff
when compared to the charisma con
brought to the role over 25 years
earlier I gotta catch me first rig
number 3 Seth Rogen the Green Hornet
this masked crime fighter possesses a
proud pedigree dating all the way back
to his debut in radio in the 1930s the
Green Hornet was set for a big-budget
reboot back in 2011 with the very
unlikely Seth Rogen in the lead critics
immediately picked up on Rogen’s
performance in the film calling the
actor out for being miscast okay you
don’t have to take my hand but will you
come with me on this adventure the film
did big money with fans at first but
sharply dropped off after a boffo
opening weekend as negative
word-of-mouth soon spread about The
Green Hornet and it’s less than
convincing hero in 2013 Rogen himself
referred to working on the film as a
quote nightmare we’ve both been
completely wasting our potential number
2 Shaquille O’Neal Steele
the late 90s were a rough time for the
superhero movie genre and a long way
away from the early 21st century’s
big-budget action spectaculars
enter basketball star Shaquille O’Neal
and his disastrous turn as the DC comic
book hero known as steel there is a
thick layer of cheese here a fact that
isn’t helped much by O’Neal’s less than
commanding performance in the lead role
of John Henry irons this is a shame
because it would have been great to see
DC steel up there on the big screen
especially if the filmmakers that
explored his place in the Superman
universe one thing’s for sure any sort
of Steel reboot should stay very far far
away from the Shaq man number one Jay
Leno collision course the question
you’re probably asking yourself is wait
what Jay Leno was in an action movie
well incredibly the answer to that is
yes and his co-star was the karate kids
own Pat Morita the film in question was
collision course and it featured an East
meets West duo of cops trying to track
down a stolen Japanese turbocharger in
Detroit
[Music]
director Louis Teague and crew had
attempted to finish the film in 1989 but
budgetary issues caused collision course
to sit on the shelf until 1992 when it
was quietly released on VHS Warren I got
I had it do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
their face welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 actors who tried and failed
in action movies let’s go
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
ranking the actors or celebrities with
acting aspirations whose attempts at
action movie gold fell short of bronze
for the record we’re not saying all of
these movies are bad but rather taking a
light-hearted look at actors whose
translation into the action movie world
was generally seen by the public as
debatable will you help me number 10
Alicia Silverstone Batman and Robin
Alfred it’s me
Barbara this legendary superhero bust
stalled many careers when it was
released back in 1997 with Batman and
Robin effectively halting any hopes
co-star Alicia Silverstone might have
had about a career in action movies
the film’s ultra campy tone and overtly
jokey execution effectively killed the
Batman franchise for years as well with
Silverstone’s performances Batgirl
adding little if anything to the
proceedings pretty good at this little
girl well watch and learn little boy it
would be unfair to lay the blame for
Batman and Robin’s failure solely on
Silverstone Nana’s plenty of blame to go
around after all but this doesn’t change
the fact that the actress just didn’t
seem cut out for the action movie game
chicks like you give women a bad name
number nine Pamela Anderson barbed wire
don’t call me
barbed wire knew exactly what it was
when it was released back in 1996 male
teenage fantasy fodder featuring Pamela
Anderson lots of guns and some very big
explosions the film was based upon a
Dark Horse comic book series with
Anderson playing the role of the titular
heroine
neither do i the film didn’t please
audiences or critics however with many
pointing to Anderson’s OneNote
performance and dry delivery as sticking
points in this box office bomb still
barbed wire is fun enough when you’re in
the right mood but Andersen would fail
to achieve any sort of action movie
success in the wake of its release
number 8 Brian Bosworth stone-cold you
gotta clean up one out for those
searching for some action movie lunacy
need look no further than 1991 s
stone-cold an enjoyably ridiculous
collection of tough-guy cliches starring
the one and only Brian Bosworth Bosworth
had previously made his name in the NFL
but stone-cold was supposed to be his
breakout role in the action movie
mainstream
[Music]
fans and critics didn’t flock to see the
Boz however and stone-cold flopped at
the box office b-movie fans did later
latch on to the film on home video but
Bosworth star never truly ignited
although the former Seattle Seahawks
still act on the indie scene to this day
imagine the future chains
[Music]
number seven taylor lautner abduction
and traceurs ma taylor lautner we know
you’re trying hard to escape from your
twilight past but the actors
performances in the 2011 film abduction
and 2015’s tracers are just that
attempts abduction was loud nurse first
proper crack at action movie stardom as
an adult and received scathing reviews
concerning the actor’s wooden
performance and lack of charisma
Fraser’s unfortunately didn’t fare much
better with Lautner implausibly starring
as a bike messenger who ends up running
with a parkour gang in New York City
when doing don’t don’t move the time may
come when Jacob Berg Taylor finally
becomes an actual action movie
heavyweight but it will definitely take
better movies than these to get the job
done number six Ice Cube xxx State of
the Union welcome to the first taint
jacket in history not even ice cube
could save the xxx franchise in 2005
when the rapper turned actor decided to
fill the shoes vacated by Vin Diesel to
be fair the xxx state of the union did
bring back a small return against its
sixty million dollar budget but critics
were split on cubes performance as an
action hero while fans mourn the loss of
diesel from the franchise they would get
their wish over a decade later however
with xxx return of xander cage
reigniting the film series bringing both
cube and diesel back for another round
I could definitely make that work
number five Tyler Perry Alex Cross you
got a respect writer actor and director
Tyler Perry for attempting to try
something new by taking part in the 2012
film Alex Cross it couldn’t have been
easy for Perry to step into a role that
was not only based on a beloved book
series by James Patterson but had also
previously been portrayed on screen by
Morgan Freeman I think you just have a
mama desire to burn in hell
fans of Perry’s Madea franchise however
stayed away from Alex Cross and the film
ended up as both a critical and
commercial failure despite Perry’s best
intentions is this what you want to die
doing today number four Chris Klein
rollerball what are you talking about
remaking a cult classic usually isn’t
the best idea
especially when the film was as niche as
the 1975 sci-fi oddity rollerball that
movie starred Hollywood heavyweight
James Caan however while viewers of the
2002 version were forced to settle for
American Thai actor Chris Klein
[Music]
the rollerball remake was panned by fans
and critics alike mainly because it
lacked the Kitsch 70s cool and
socio-political themes of the original
appliance performance in the film was
considered blend and not up to snuff
when compared to the charisma con
brought to the role over 25 years
earlier I gotta catch me first rig
number 3 Seth Rogen the Green Hornet
this masked crime fighter possesses a
proud pedigree dating all the way back
to his debut in radio in the 1930s the
Green Hornet was set for a big-budget
reboot back in 2011 with the very
unlikely Seth Rogen in the lead critics
immediately picked up on Rogen’s
performance in the film calling the
actor out for being miscast okay you
don’t have to take my hand but will you
come with me on this adventure the film
did big money with fans at first but
sharply dropped off after a boffo
opening weekend as negative
word-of-mouth soon spread about The
Green Hornet and it’s less than
convincing hero in 2013 Rogen himself
referred to working on the film as a
quote nightmare we’ve both been
completely wasting our potential number
2 Shaquille O’Neal Steele
the late 90s were a rough time for the
superhero movie genre and a long way
away from the early 21st century’s
big-budget action spectaculars
enter basketball star Shaquille O’Neal
and his disastrous turn as the DC comic
book hero known as steel there is a
thick layer of cheese here a fact that
isn’t helped much by O’Neal’s less than
commanding performance in the lead role
of John Henry irons this is a shame
because it would have been great to see
DC steel up there on the big screen
especially if the filmmakers that
explored his place in the Superman
universe one thing’s for sure any sort
of Steel reboot should stay very far far
away from the Shaq man number one Jay
Leno collision course the question
you’re probably asking yourself is wait
what Jay Leno was in an action movie
well incredibly the answer to that is
yes and his co-star was the karate kids
own Pat Morita the film in question was
collision course and it featured an East
meets West duo of cops trying to track
down a stolen Japanese turbocharger in
Detroit
[Music]
director Louis Teague and crew had
attempted to finish the film in 1989 but
budgetary issues caused collision course
to sit on the shelf until 1992 when it
was quietly released on VHS Warren I got
I had it do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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