11 Actors Who (Hopefully) Killed Their Careers In 2014

5. Jai Courtney

Aussie actor Jai Courtney contributed heavily to why last year's A Good Day to Die Hard was no good at all, and similarly this year he's helped sink several films with supporting roles in pictures that were admittedly already not particularly great. Courtney was sleep-inducingly bland in I, Frankenstein (3%), which just barely grossed enough to cover its budget, and similarly forgettable in Divergent (41%), which did moderately well with $288.7 against an $80 million budget. The actor was lucky enough to land a part in this week's new release, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken (currently sitting at a disappointing 50-ish %), though given the lack of reference he's given in the reviews, it's fair to say Courtney just fades into the periphery. Despite his online designation as "the new Sam Worthington", next year nevertheless sees a full slate for the actor: Russell Crowe's feature directorial debut The Water Diviner (which has earned mixed-to-positive reviews in Australia, most of which don't mention Courtney), Insurgent, Terminator: Genisys (playing Kyle Reese in a role that's already raising a lot of red flags), and Boomerang in David Ayer's comic book flick Suicide Squad. It might take a while for the penny to drop with Hollywood just as it did with Worthington (who has gone from starring in the highest-grossing film ever to nearly falling off the map in less than 5 years), but short of some marvelous work in these movies, Courtney's gearing up for the same sort of crash and burn (but without the guaranteed pay-day of Avatar sequels to lean back on).