10 Modern Action Film Stars Who Failed To Meet Their Potential

8. Scott Adkins

The direct-to-video market is saturated with micro-budget action movies that feature either unknown actors or faded stars from the genre's 1980's heyday, and these movies hit shelves with such regularity that most of them are interchangeable with each other. Scott Adkins is one of the better actors working in the DTV genre, but has still yet to manage a mainstream breakthrough despite actually having decent acting skills to match his impressive martial arts prowess. The English actor has appeared in some high-profile projects, but only in small doses; a tiny role in The Bourne Ultimatum, henchman duties in The Expendables 2, a brief turn in Zero Dark Thirty and the unfortunate honor of providing the martial arts for the horribly-botched Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, while his biggest Hollywood role to date was as the villain in this year's box office bomb The Legend of Hercules. A regular collaborator of Isaac Florentine, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, Adkins seems comfortable in his wheelhouse. However, the actor deserves the chance to fulfill his potential in a bigger project. In fact, Marvel could do a lot worse if they ever get round to recasting The Punisher...