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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider– The Cradle of Life (2003)
Paramount
Betcha didn't understand Gerard Butler was the rushing romantic foil to Lara Croft. He's likewise among the factors Cradle of Life is anywhere near watchable, matching Angelina Jolie's smarmy, sultry, and British-accented heroine with a flirty laddishness that guides us through progressively ridiculous outlining. Butler plays Terry Sheridan, an ex-Royal Marine who turned versus the Crown and is secured in a Kazakhstan jail for his traitorous mercenary exploits when Lara requires his aid searching Pandora's Box. Jolie is so in control in her Burial place Raider movies that Butler seems like a welcome shock of turmoil, radiating macho blowing to counter her put-togetherness. Butler plays an obnoxious romantic lead a couple of times in his profession, however this is the closest he gets to a swashbuckler.
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Hunter Killer (2018)
A little an outlier on this list– Butler is relatively leveled and, in regards to story obligations, secondary in this oddly hectic military thriller. On the surface area, Hunter Killer renews the Hollywood's love affair with submarines (Crimson Tide, The Hunt for Red October, K-19: The Widowmakercasting Butler as a stern, devoted captain who teams up with his Russian opponent to conserve American lives, however the movie invests a great deal of time with NAVY Seals on an unconventional objective in opponent area, welcoming contrasts to turgid military movies like Lone Survivor and Act of Valor. Hunter Killer‘s biggest sin– apart from losing leading tier skill like Gary Oldman and Linda Cardellini in cutaways to choice spaces– is that it's entirely thinking about being a regular film, and while its '90s-period conventionality produces a comfy watch, “Gerard Butler in a submarine” should influence more insane shenanigans.
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Copshop (2021)
Open Road FIlms/Briarcliff Entertainment
This is the very first of 3 movies on this list that show that it's a bad concept to put Gerard Butler behind bars. Seemingly a throwback to '70s exploitation movies, mixing Western archetypes with garish, filth-caked violence, Copshop feels more like the wannabe grindhouse criminal activity movies that spouted in the wake of Tarantino's early success. If Copshop is anything to pass, Gerard Butler would be remarkable in less-than-classics like Go The Big Hit The Boondock Saints— playing a scuzzy, violent expert criminal fits his post-mainstream acting chops. He plays Viddick, a callous killer who gets apprehended so he's in the adjacent cell to his target (Frank Grillo), and is indirectly accountable for the majority of the movie's massive bloodshed.
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London Has Fallen (2016)
What began as the grisly twin of the bouncy,
