10 Actors That Tried Being Action Heroes And Failed Miserably

10. Taylor Lautner

Incredibly, Taylor Lautner is still just 28 years old, so there's plenty of time to enter the next stage of his career, but at this stage it would be fair to say that he hasn't reached the same levels of success as The Twilight Saga's other two leads.

Following the conclusion of the multi-billion sparkly vampire franchise, both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart aimed to reinvent themselves as acclaimed thespians in a string of independent dramas. Lautner on the other hand jumped headfirst into the action genre, and things didn't exactly go to plan.

Both Abduction and Tracers were about as banal and generic as their titles would suggest, scoring Rotten Tomatoes scores of 24% and 5% respectively, with neither exactly setting the box office alight. The leading man's painfully wooden performances didn't help either, and Lautner has only appeared in one movie in the last four years, one that was also panned by critics, leaving him at a career crossroads before he's even hit 30.