Gerard Butler: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Mike - The Ugly Truth (2009)

If there's one thing Gerard Butler can't do, it's an American accent, and if there's one thing he shouldn't do, it's rom coms. Obviously on some kind of romantic comedy high after the well-received (if sappy) P.S. I Love You, Butler did what a lot of leading men in Hollywood do and just kind of chased that image for a bit.

The Ugly Truth, a sub-par effort featuring notable career dead-ender Katherine Heigl, has a plot so tedious it was almost painful. Basically, Butler is a ladies man, who begins working for Heigl's intellectual, if unlucky-in-love, career woman. He agrees to help her acquire the affections of her dreamy new neighbour, seeing as he feels like he knows how the game is played. Romance obviously ensues. The end.

To his credit, Butler looks like he's having fun, but the movie is so dreadful that neither he nor his dreadful yank accent can rise above the proceedings. Coupled with the fact that he followed this up with The Bounty Hunter (ugh) with Jennifer Aniston and you've got a one-two punch that, whilst financially successful, nearly took his critical reputation to the grave.