9. Pierce Brosnan
Being charming and Irish, it wasnt long before he was an international sex-symbol and deemed a box-office draw by the Hollywood powers-that-be. Throughout the nineties Brosnan enjoyed a series of well-remembered roles in movies like Mrs. Doubtfire, Mars Attacks!, The Thomas Crown Affair and even, as you well know, had managed to secure himself the much sought mantle of Bond, and provided one of the better Bond movies: Goldeneye. It could have gone either way for Brosnan, and the noughties were the true test. Unfortunately he never quite managed to capture a role as good as Bond again, and was quickly dropped from the franchise after the poor performance of Die Another Day. Despite appearing in the odd decent movie throughout the noughties (The Matador and The Ghost Writer to name a few) his cringe-worth turn in Mamma Mia! in 2008 is the one that will have most likely forcibly etched itself into peoples minds. Despite showing some early promise in the 90s, one word can describe what came to pass for Brosnans career: meh