10 Most Over-rated Young Actors

Some of the actors featured have already reached certain prominence like Ryan Gosling or Jake Gyllenhaal and some may have just played his first awesome role like Eddie Redmayne or Andrew Garfield, or some have been making waves in their part of the world like Kostja Ullmann in his native Germany or Andreas Wilson in Sweden.

But how about the young actors we considered to be over-rated? The guys who seem to be getting lots of buzz, but has no real talent at all, or perhaps a miniscule amount of it, and rely heavily on his talent manager to do what it takes?

Here’s our list:

#10. Steven Strait: He used to be a male model and he had this extremely long and boring interview with modellaunch.com, a site that discovered the infamous Joseph Sayers who had a long history of over-exposure in the world of smut…. I find The Covenant to be one of the most inept and silly movies of all time, and all the actors, except Taylor Kitch and to a certain extent Chace Crawford did terrible.

While both Kitch and Crawford look promising and they do get some amazing roles of late, Strait is just…plain. Will his new film 10,000 BC convince me otherwise?

#9 Elijah Wood: I thought he was ‘good’ in The Good Son and I was rooting for him against the evil Macaulay Caulkin, and yes, you would bother me with shouts of “He’s awesome in Lord of the Rings, you idiot!” but I saw him acting with Charlie Hunnam in a soccer movie called Green Street Hooligans and he’s just plain out of place and just got overwhelmed by the more charismatic and talented Hunnam. Wood plays a journalism student who was expelled from Harvard and went to England instead. Hunnam plays his brother in law and introduced him to the underworld of football hooliganism. It’s like a younger version of Fight Club, but unlike Fincher’s casting chemistry, this one failed because Wood simply can’t make me believe.

# 8 Daniel Radcliffe. I would definitely get some hate emails for this, but hey, aside from Harry Potter, have you seen him doing other roles? Yeah, Equus and having the time of his life getting naked… But seriously, I expected some decency (acting, that is) when I went to buy December Boys and expected some good acting. If you haven’t bought the DVD yet, then don’t bother. I tried to watched it a couple of times, and I always end up sleeping. It’s supposed to be his ‘dramatic’ piece outside Potter, but except for some nostalgic scenes of brotherhood and deliverance, it’s a disappointing movie as a whole…

# 7 Josh Harnett. I read this rather ‘authoritative’ article about top 10 Hollywood actors from someone. Here’s all about Josh:

Josh Harnette was launched into the heart and minds of many as John Tate in Halloween H20 (1998). The Faculty (1998) as Zeke Tyler and The Virgin Suicides (1999) as Trip Fontaine shown the raw talent and potiental of Josh that was to come. It is his action packed performances in Pearl harbor (2001) as Capt. Danny Walker and Black Hawk Down that solidified him as a movie star. He provides adorable comedic timing as Matt Sullivan in 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002). With films roles like Sin City (2005) as The Man and The Black Dahlia l(2006) as Ofcr. Dwight ‘Bucky’ Bleichert to his filmography, the long-gevity ofthis actor is assured.

Aside from the wrong spelling, I can’t help but think the author simply have no idea what she’s talking about. The Black Dahlia is simply crap! Pearl Harbor too! Please gimme a break! He can’t even held his own against Ben Foster in 30 Days of Night..geezzz!

# 5 Tobey Maguire…. Oh? Have you seen him in Wonder Boys where he gets to be ‘molested’ by Robert Downey Jr.? How about that pathetic role in The Good German, yeah the black and white feature of Steven Soderbergh with Clooney and Blanchett. It was plain torture! I almost jumped with joy after seeing his character gets killed halfway through that movie. Although he has his share of good acting too, but it seems he’s one of the most hyped actors on the planet!

Give the Spidey role to Jake or Joe Levitt please!

# 4 Orlando Bloom. Yeah, he looks awesome with that pure white hair of a… (what’s his race? ) in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, but that’s about it. I am a big fan of Kirsten Dunst and having seen most of her movies, the only one that annoys me and left me disappointed is Elizabethtown.Bloom with his ‘classic’ accent is simply miscast as the grieving son who went on a road trip. Susan Sarandon was delightful as his Mom, and so is Hope Davis, but Bloom? I wish the role was given to someone like Ryan Philippe or James Marsden instead….Or if you want, have a foreign version and see how good it would be if they got Daniel Bruhl or Louis Garrel to play.

# 3 Hayden Christensen: Could someone do a movie with Hayden and Michael Pitt throwing rocks at each other?

After the inept and extremely boring Awake, comes Jumper, the film almost everyone I know loves to hate!

If there’s one guy who has the greatest chance of replacing Keanu Reeves as the most over-rated actor, it’s this guy. Picture Hayden as Neo jumping all over the place with his shades and a light saber…. Ewww!

# 2 Ashton Kutcher: Aside from Mr. Brooks, the other comeback movie of Kevin Kostner was supposedly The Guardian. Kostner plays Ben Randall a maverick, but aging senior chief in the Coast Guard. Kutcher is the ‘goldfish’ known for his swimming skills and ambition. Being the latest recruit, he aims to break Kostner’s records. It’s been compared to the trainer-trainee conflict of An Officer and a Gentlemen, but not quite…definitely not at all!

It’s a decent film, with some amazing stunts and thrillers but what made it more like a B-movie is Kutcher and his shallow, uncoordinated performance. If every celebrity victim of his Punk’d charade wanted to take revenge, then need not look further or do anything for that matter. He’s been punk’d here many times already!

# 1 Shia LaBeouf: Yeah, the big mouth himself. I used to like this guy in Holes, that little movie with the wicked Sigourney Weaver! He’s even cool in A Guide to Recognizing your Saints, though he’s no match to Channing Tatum in ALL departments…

Indiana Jones fans may either like this guy or just have to accept the fact that he’s on it. I remember with such annoyance how he made his way into the headlines announcing he’s in the movie, even before the word Go! He also wanted to appear humble and such, by insisting he’s no matinée idol and that he knows he has limited appeal in the looks department, even comparing himself to Dustin Hoffman…oh dear! I so wished Sean Patrick Flannery is young enough to play the role or just take me back in time and have River Phoenix do it.

Source The Movie Fanatic

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