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10 Famous Actors Who Only Ever Managed One Legitimately Great Performance

It can be galling to recognize that some of the most famous thesps in the world got to be in their position without actually being able to act much at all. Look at Ryan Phillippe, Megan Fox, or Ashton Kutcher. All three are recent examples of famous 'actors' who never really proved they could act a damn.
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Published: Nov 16, 2015 09:19 pm

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4) Jean-Claude Van Damme In JCVD

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Statham isn’t the only action star who’s proved he can also do this acting when he’s called upon to tackle it; in Mabrouk El Mechri’s meta, faintly autobiographical JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme commands the screen in a way he never did as a glorified fight-bot in countless 80s and 90s actioners.

The plot is simple, if a tad bizarre – Van Damme plays himself as a weary, jaded action star in financial difficulty, who gets caught up in a Brussels bank robbery – but it all just feels like an excuse to prove that JCVD has been otherwise wasted.

A centrepiece monologue, given straight to the camera by Van Damme, encapsulates his appeal in this movie: he’s desperately, heart-wrenchingly honest and real, cathartically explaining where it all went wrong in a turbulent career.

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