9 Major Actors Who Just Made 5 Bad Films In A Row

The dry spell: Angel Has Fallen, The Vanishing, Hunter Killer, Den of Thieves, Geostorm

Has a less interesting personality ever graced the screen? We say no, but somehow Gerard Butler stumbled from his lawn chair at his kid's soccer match, belched gin and signed on for Olympus has Fallen, the first in a "...has Fallen" franchise with scripts so xenophobic they make David Duke blush.

But Butler apparently appeals to women, that explains his surprisingly long run of romcoms in which he's the lovable (?) lout to a starlet's OCD-strained working woman. We'll start after Gods of Egypt, which pretty much covers his career post-romcom lead and post-Trump's American male.

It doesn't help that most of his characters are underdeveloped hulking masses - more blunt weapons than fine-edged tools - that may as well be cliche generators rather than living beings. But a solid action star can sell those cliches, no matter how silly. No matter how serious or raised the stakes of the action, such as in the apocalyptically dumb Geostorm, it's difficult to believe a word that comes out of Butler's mouth.

When he's not spouting out one-liners for the mass public, his other work also appears to be brainless actioners - just unsuccessful ones for less well-known directors.

Bad or good, he's never the one thing an actor should always be: interesting.