10 Actors Who Are Nowhere Near As Great As They Used To Be

6. Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson was a force to be reckoned with in the '80s and '90s. Bursting out of Australia with the Mad Max trilogy and the highly successful Lethal Weapon series, he was the inaugural People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. He rose to the top with the Game of Thrones-lite Braveheart, where he won best director and best picture. He was such a great actor that Hollywood picked him to be the epitome of Americana by casting him and fellow Australian Heath Ledger as the heart of the father-son combo in The Patriot. He went from Road Warrior to Maverick to Braveheart without missing a beat. He was the Swiss Army Knife of Acting. So what happened? Basically M. Night Shyamalan and Signs. This is the apex of his career; where America stopped relating to Mel and his wacky American Dad ways. Follow this by his own drunken real-life conspiracy rant, the soft-core torture porn of Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, his last dent in the acting world was him taking 2nd billing to a talking beaver.