10 Famous Actors Who Only Ever Managed One Legitimately Great Performance

6) Orlando Bloom In The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor is one of those films where the only thing to recommend it is the compelling lead performance. What’s surprising is that that lead performance in this case comes from the usually stiff Orlando Bloom, playing charming doctor Martin Blake, who intentionally keeps a female patient sick and in his care after he becomes obsessed with her.

In this chilly thriller, director Lance Daly lets Bloom play his otherwise problematic lack of inner life beautifully. Where elsewhere directors have largely just traded on Bloom’s outer beauty, Daly has the intelligence to see there’s a cold, incomplete air to Bloom’s acting personality that makes perfect sense for Martin Blake.

In the end, he makes for a great movie sociopath, selfishly trying to dig himself out of a hole even at grave cost to others.