For every Bruce Willis , Arnold Schwarzenegger or Daniel Craig , there are a dozen would - be action stars who tried to get their movie careers off the ground , but could n’t quite care it . Here are 15 player who thought they could punch , spud and leap into stardom , but world had other plan .
1 ) Shaquile O’Neal , brand
Shaquille O’Neal was very skillful at basketball game . Acting ? Not so much . In his attempt to transform himself into a movie star of any sort , he gave the action genre a try as the nominal superhero of Steel in 1997 . The functioning was so direful he lay off prove to run anyone other than himself until a act part in Grown - Ups 2 in 2013 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3beTBUTxOXs
2 ) Chris Klein , Rollerball
call up when America tried to make Chris Klein happen ? He seems like an affable guy , but his good turn as the jerky Oz in the American Pie film did n’t really convey his ability to anchor an action picture , especially one as ill - conceived as the 2002 Rollerball remake .
3 ) Pamela Anderson , Barb Wire
Playboy Playmate turned popular TV star Pamela Anderson thought movie champion was the next rung in her run when she accept the title role of Barb Wire , based on the racy comical heroine . Suffice it to say , it was not nearly as warmly receive as her sex tape with Tommy Lee .
4 ) Shia LaBeouf , Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Although the Transformers films are certainly action flick , and they ’ve been wildly successful , you could n’t appropriately call Shia LaBeouf ( “ The Beef ” ) an action movie genius in them . He was there mainly as an hearing deputy while Michael Bay blew crap up . But Steven Spielberg thought he had enough potential that he cast Shia as Indiana Jones ’ son Mutt in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . Not that anybody would have await good prove to swing on hobo camp vines like a monkey , but Shia somehow made it even bad .
5 ) Brian Bosworth , Stone Cold
As a former NFL linebacker , Brian Bosworth is one of many pro athletes who hoped to make it large in Hollywood with the 1991 film Stone Cold . give that perhaps three of the citizenry reading this even remember this picture show ever subsist , I call up you could guess how that go .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0HtTUrYwts
6 ) Jay Leno , Collision course of instruction
Any time you read a list of the filthy action films ever made , Collision Course is going to come up , and deservedly so . Collision Course was an action - drollery that paired Jay Leno with The Karate Kid ’s Pat Morita , in the venous blood vessel of every mismatch buddy - cop pic ever . It was n’t queer , it was n’t activity - packed , and it was n’t even finished until years after the shoot , where it limped straight to nursing home telecasting . As you might have find , Leno did n’t quit his day job ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNUpWxJ4J4
7 ) Alex Pettyfer
In research this article , I regain many people say that Alex Pettyfer was a break action movie ace . He was in I Am Number Four , Beastly , and something called Alex Rider : Operation Stormbreaker , all of which bombard . Given the fact that I had no musical theme Pettyfer existed until yesterday , I ’m going to say , his command to be an natural process star was not a achiever .
- Kristen Kreuk , Legend of Chun Li
Despite the Brobdingnagian popularity of the Street Fighter videogame dealership , it seems Legend Films made this movie under duress . They yield it practically no budget , which prevent any gravid actors from appearing in it . This allowed former Smallville star Kreuk her bragging break , while also straightaway end her motion-picture show career , because neither she nor the movie were at all good .
9 ) Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington is the headliner of Avatar , which is not only an action flick from the power of action flicks , James Cameron , but is the mellow grossing movie of all time . He starred in the dread but popular Clash of the Titans remake and the terrible but somewhat profitable Teminator : redemption reboot . How can he be take a unsuccessful person ? Well , because since then he ’s basically disappeared . Despite his mad , insupportable success , no one is rent him anymore . I do n’t screw on the dot why directors have stopped casting him , but I assume it has something to do with him have the acting power of a rotted logarithm .
10 ) Vanilla Ice , Cool as Ice
Vanilla Ice was once not only popular , but a pop rapper . So democratic , in fact , he was grant to star in an action movie . This was a huge mistake for everyone postulate .
11 ) Taylor Kitsch
I detest that Taylor Kitsch is on this list , because anyone who ’s seen him on Friday Night Lights knows he ’s a authentically safe actor . And while battlewagon was exactly as dumb as a movie found on a table game would be ask to be , John Carter was in reality quite ripe , but bomb because of the world ’s crappiest selling safari . But two major box office turkey in run-in cut Kitsch ’s natural action moving-picture show calling short . Happily , he seems to be bouncing back with a mixture spectacular role , include one in the upcoming second season of truthful Detective .
12 ) Justin Long , Live Free or fail heavily
I have no idea how the nerdy Justin Long , of Apple commercial fame , grapple to co - star in a Die tough moving picture alongside Bruce Willis . I ca n’t think anyone , even a Hollywood executive director , being so whacked out on cocaine that they honestly believed Long was the newfangled nerve of the dealership . It ’s like some terrible buffoonery memoranda got way out of hand and the studio apartment did n’t notice they ’d by chance engage Long until half the moving picture was already shoot . At any rate , they wised up and Willis got a Modern , hefty sidekick in A ripe Day to pass severely . I suppose Justin Long is also completely okay with this .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_1MTx1r-lY
13 ) Alicia Silverstone , Batman & Robin
I wo n’t pretend that throw off the star of Clueless as Batgirl is the expectant of Batman & Robin ’s sins , but man , she made Chris O’Donnell look like Joseph Gordon - Levitt in comparing . Suffice it to say , after that she stuck to project that did n’t force her to tend around in a leather bodysuit with graven behind cheeks .
14 ) Hulk Hogan , No bear Barred
After fighting Rocky in Rocky III , wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan had a taste for Hollywood . With help from the WWE , he managed to get a star vehicle as — wait for it — a matman in No Holds bar . It was not a good motion-picture show , but it was one more suitable to Hogan ’s acting endowment than his previous action - comedies Mr. Nanny and Suburban Commando , which were mere radar target on his immediate downward spiral into cinematic irrelevance .
15 ) Taylor Lautner , Abduction
The shirt - challenged werewolf of the Twilight saga parlayed the franchise ’s immense popularity into his bidding to become an action picture show star . In the frenzy of Twilight mania , Lautner was rent to go a diversity of natural process movie , include Max Steel and Stretch Armstrong , both free-base on action figure . Then masses see him champion in Abduction , and realized out that Lautner was a less talented ( although less bland ) Sam Worthington . Everything Lautner was attached to was quietly placed on the backburner .
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