Karl Urban: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

2. Zack - Walking With Dinosaurs

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Remember BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurs? Well, what if we took that name and used it as the backdrop for an grating educational kids animation with CGI that would have looked out of date in 1999? Sprinkle in a bizarre modern day bookmarking segment where Karl Urban channels Alan Grant and you’ve got a thrill-less pre-historic adventure that arrived too early to capitalise on the success of Jurassic World.

Obviously it’s made for dino obsessives aged six and under, but that doesn’t excuse Karl Urban’s bland cool uncle here. He moseys around with forced charisma before solving a major paleontological mystery on a whim care of a talking bird.

I can’t even explain why he did this one. I mean, yes, money, but really? He did this? Then again, look at number one...

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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.