10 Blockbuster Leading Men So Boring They Almost Put Us To Sleep

6. Colin Farrell

Boring Blockbusters: S.W.A.T. (2003), Alexander (2004), Miami Vice (2006), Total Recall (2012) Colin Farrell can give a great performance with the right material, as evidenced by strong turns over the last decade in projects as varied as Minority Report, Daredevil, In Bruges and Horrible Bosses to name but a few. However, whenever the actor has taken the lead role in a big-budget feature he has failed to deliver anything near his best work. In Clark Johnson's $70m adaptation of the 1970s television series, Farrell plays Jim Street, a hot-shot rookie S.W.A.T officer with a personality as uninteresting as his name. The actor fares no worse than the rest of the cast, although that is hardly a compliment given the by-the-numbers dialogue and overall mediocrity of the final product. The following year, the Irishman played the title character in Oliver Stone's long-gestating $155m epic Alexander. Although subsequent cuts of the movie have marked an improvement on the theatrical version, Farrell seems painfully miscast and fails to hold the audience's attention as one of history's greatest strategists. The actor would then share leading man status alongside Jamie Foxx in the $135m big-screen adaptation of Miami Vice, which is as great-looking as you would expect from a Michael Mann movie but suffers from taking itself too seriously and a frankly alarming lack of chemistry between the two leads. Farrell's latest big-budget leading role would see him step into Arnold Schwarzenegger's shoes as Douglas Quaid in the lifeless Total Recall remake. Vastly inferior to Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action classic, the actor delivers a frustratingly one-note performance as soulless as the movie itself. Without a doubt Colin Farrell is a more than a capable actor, although he is one who struggles in carrying a major studio picture.