10 Movie Roles Where The Actor Basically Did NOTHING

Back when an adaptation of the Hasbro board game Battleship was first announced, it was met with a combination of laughter and eye-rolls, that Hollywood had finally become so idea-deprived that it would now be adapting the most thinly-premised of name IP.

Yet many had their interest piqued when Liam Neeson was confirmed to be part of the ensemble cast, because how, how could you make this movie and not have him whisper in his gruff Irish drawl, "Nobody sinks my battleship!"?

But despite Neeson being introduced as the steely Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Terrance Shane, he's bafflingly absent for the bulk of the action-packed alien invasion shenanigans.

After his first-act introduction, Shane is basically gone until he scrambles assistance in the finale, and then spends the final scene of the movie telling his future son-in-law Lieutenant Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) that they're going to eat chicken burritos for lunch. Yup.

This was even more of a blatant paycheck role for Neeson than the Taken sequels, because while those movies at least asked him to move around and pretend to punch people, all he does here is stand around and spit expository dialogue.