2. Tom Berenger - Inception (2010)
Remember when Charlie Sheen was seen as a respectable actor and not as an unhinged individual in the news for all the wrong reasons? Ill refresh your memory it was the eighties, where Tom Berenger starred alongside the man in two films, which remain amongst his best known performances. These were Major League, a baseball film and Platoon, a Vietnam War film that makes for compelling viewing. The latter saw Berenger nominated for an Oscar for his role as Sgt. Barnes, who serves as an authority figure to Sheens Pvt. Taylor alongside Willem Dafoes Sgt. Elias. Ruthless and violent in comparison to Dafoes laidback character, few can forget the scene in the film where Dafoe, having been shot by Berenger, emerges from a jungle and adopts a crucifix pose whilst being gunned down by the North Vietnamese, as Barbers Adagio For Strings plays poignantly in the background. Platoon was not Berengers only Vietnam film of the eighties, as he reunited with director Oliver Stone for Born On The Fourth Of July. The roles available to the aging actor began to decrease in number in the nineties, however, though he did appear in the well-received Gettysburg. Before Inception, in which he played Peter Browning, the godfather to Cillian Murphys Patrick Fischer, Berengers last appearance in a film with a cinematic release was in 2001, where he played a supporting role in Training Day, the film that saw Denzel Washington win his second Oscar. Since then he has won an Emmy for his supporting role in Hatfields & McCoys, but has little else of note in his upcoming release schedule.