Nah, he's a good actor whose presence actually helped some movies. I will say though that he seems to have the worst luck for an actor making all the right choices on paper and with the notoriety that he has in Hollywood at the moment.
Think about it. He's appeared either as the lead or a supporting player in movies helmed by the likes of Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, Noah Baumbach, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Mann, Jeff Nichols and of course J.J. Abrams in the SW sequels.
That's an insane resume for any major actor at his age. And yet really, the only ones that were commercially successful were the Star Wars sequels;forgot about Lincoln but he's got a very small role in that.
I'm not sure who else to compare him with because it's a unique situation to be a widely recognized actor and work with so many accomplished filmmakers. And yet the vast bulk of them are not box office hits.
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