Underrated

Agreed, good looking too. Its a shame he's not in more things.

He's better then just a good actor, he's bloody fantastic more like. He's underrated for sure, but more have started noticing him thanks to Peaky Blinders. But I don't think Cillian really went out of his way to be a massive star, look at his choices of roles. He works with Christopher Nolan and is always excellent but he's never in a leading role. He do the odd Hollywood flick like Red Eye (he's the best thing about that), In Time, In The Heart of the Sea and Transcendence. He star in the odd break out film like Danny Boyle's 28 Day's Later or give performances in films that should have given him award talk but didn't like Ken Loach's The Wind that shakes the Barley or Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto (His best performance in my opinion)

But a lot of his work is mostly indie fare and film's that won't see a large audience. That's a shame cause that's where you see Cillian at his very best. He's excellent in Disco Pigs and On the Edge, gave a great performance in the underrated Anthropoid and Broken, was very good in Free Fire and intermission. He's done other stuff in indie films that range from solid to ok to meh.

But he's got a interest C.V to say the least.

I came to his thread knowing someone would think and post the same. I agree, quite underrated. I’ve always liked him. He always stands out to me in a film even though he’s only the supporting role. He reminds of Terrence Stamp; he has that same quiet intensity, yet he also has Jack Nicholson’s craziness. I think Cillian Murphy is a chameleon, has great range, fits good and bad characters, and has a face for any era. He could easily star in (your profile name) a remake of—heaven forbid—A Clockwork Orange. He has that special x-factor that actors from the 70s had that is kind of lost today. I don’t know what it is. Really liked him in Peaky Blinders.

Agreed, incredible actor, but incredibly underrated.

GREAT ACTOR,WEAK PHYSICAL PRESENCE.THUS HIS PERPETUAL ON THE BUBBLE STATUS.

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Yes, underrated. See 28 Days Later (2002).