10 Actors Who Haven't Given A Good Movie Performance In Over A Decade
10. Val Kilmer
Ah, Val Kilmer. Its seems an aeon away since he gave us his last truly good performance in Shane Blacks underrated, brilliant Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). Playing Dt. Gay Perry (really), Kilmer looked set to potentially reinvigorate his career after his first decade-long disappearance into the seedy underbelly of films-for-cash, turning in his first good performance since Heat in 95. (I havent got the space here but look at his IMDB and check out his roles in that ten year period). But nope, History, as weve been taught, repeated itself once more, and Kilmers filmography since Gay Perry reads something like this (and this is just a selection): Played (2006); Summer Love (2006); The Ten Commandments: The Musical (2006); Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007); 2:22 (2008); The Steam Experiment (2009); Deep In The Heart (2012) and Riddle (2013). That list makes it hard to believe that Val Kilmer once gave us a perfect performance as Doors front-man Jim Morrison in Oliver Stones The Doors (1991), or that he's capable of nice little turns in things like Werner Herzogs Bad Lieutenant (made in 2009 but among enough absolute garbage that it isnt going to spare his appearance on this list, cheating or not), but this is the Val Kilmer we have now and we're just gonna have to deal with it and hope for another Gay Perry somewhere down the line.
