Maybe by his own choice, but I feel like he could have been a decent action star after king Arthur and shoot up. I enjoy almost all of his films but think he hasn't been as mainstream as he should have been. Now at 52 action days probably behind him oh well... What do you guys think?
shareUnderstatement. The man was tailor made to play Bond https://twitter.com/Ibrahim_M_/status/993545143754997765 The stars were perfectly aligned for Clive Owen to take over as Bond after Pierce Brosnan but sadly nepotism won the day and they decided to go with a droopy faced blonde who would go on to channel his inner cardboard for the the next 15 years, clinging to the role longer than any other Bond actor, ensuring that Clive Owen could never take over.
Shoot em Up is probably one of the greatest action movies of the past 20 years.
shareClive has a pretty good mix of movies under his belt.
I for one am glad he didn't become Bond because that would have limited him just like it limits Daniel Craig and earlier Bond actors.
Nah
I watch Liam Neeson, who was a decent actor back in the day, and his switch to the action film stardom - which is utter BS and I'm thinking - what a wasted potential. He was a great dramatic actor, who turned into an action film star - with some of the crappiest scripts ever written (the first taken was decent - everything that followed though.... a very, very sad affair).
Clive Owen took and continue to take on roles which challenge him. It also seems like he actually reads the scripts before accepting the roles.
I don't think he makes as much money as he could have had he taken the marvel superhero route or Liam Neeson's action film path into abyss, but he kept his integrity - the films he stars in range from great to just OK, but they are never absolute stinkers. When I think of new marvel movie coming out or a new Liam Neeson film, I immediately think it's gonna be a stinker (despite kiddos buying it up), but when I think of Clive Owen movie coming out, I expect it will be anywhere from great to OK.
Your advice would have led him towards the stinkers.
I don't know if wasted is the right word, maybe underachieving. I thought he was bound for superstardom after Children of Men but then came The International, which was a pretty big disappointment. After that I saw him in The Knick but couldn't get into it.
Also add in the fact that Hollywood was really going downhill by the time 2010 rolled around. If Clive had come along earlier he would have been in much bigger movies.
There's very few talented writers, producers, directors left in Hollywood, thus movies are dead before they even hit the theaters or streaming.