10 Excruciating Films That Ruined Your Image Of Batman Actors

8. Kilmer Phones It In For Ironically Titled Bore-Fest - Hard Cash

Kilmer1 It's incredible to think, in hindsight with this slop fresh in your memory, that Kilmer was ever deemed good enough for Batman, given how little skill or enthusiasm he brings to a role that is clearly beneath him. Starring opposite Christian Slater - another former star relegated to this sort of awful dross - Kilmer is an FBI agent on the tail of a reformed (ish) con, who is working as a paramedic (because noone does security checks on people working with heavy-duty, easily-saleable prescription painkillers) and helps a bank robber escape with the money. It's awful, and cements the moment (around 2002) when Kilmer hit the bottom of the pile - though he stuck around for a few more films, he wouldn't enjoy any kind of success until Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang three years later. Watching this back, it's ridiculous to think Kilmer is even the same person who starred as Batman some 5 years beforehand. The film does unwittingly however win some points for having the only poster of Verne Troyer brandishing a gun while standing on the bonnet of a sinking high security vehicle, about to be run over by a boat emerging from a fireball...

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The Low Point The tragic look of resignation behind Kilmer's eyes.
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