At some stage in every actor’s career, they will eventually star in an action movie.
Whether they want to try their hand at leading a franchise, work is getting pretty thin on the ground or they simply can’t resist the lure of the paycheck, it has almost become a rite of passage for any star worth their salt to try their hand at some running and gunning.
Signing on to an action flick is one thing, but finding success is the genre is an entirely different ballgame. There’s a reason why Sylvester Stallone is still churning them out in his 70s, and most of it has to do with the fact that he has a proven track record of success. Liam Neeson also entered the fray pretty late on, but he ended up becoming the most bankable action star in the business for years based purely on his no-frills string of movies that delivered exactly what they promised.
Not everybody gets to be a Schwarzenegger, Cruise, Willis or Keanu, and there are more than a few actors over the years that fancied themselves as Hollywood’s next big action hero and ended up falling flat on their faces.