An appreciation of Gerard Butler, who is almost single-handedly keeping a very specific type of movie alive
Say it with me: Tonight! We Dine! In Hell! Photo: STXfilms Last month, over the course of about a week, I variously described Gerard Butler to three different people as “the poor man’s Liam Neeson,” “the poor man’s Bruce Willis,” and “the poor man’s Harrison Ford.” I was mostly joking at the time, but after watching his latest, Angel Has Fallen, I’m starting to think that maybe all these descriptions were correct.
This all makes him somewhat antithetical to most of our ideas about movie stars nowadays. He’s not a superhero, for starters. He’s not absurdly ripped in the way The Rock is, nor does he possess seemingly supernatural fighting abilities, à la Jason Statham or, say, Tony Jaa. He has some of the qualities of late-period Keanu Reeves, but Reeves, who is five years older than Butler, has achieved another level of grace entirely with the gorgeous, otherworldly John Wick movies.
After the success of 300, Butler appeared in several not-great romantic comedies. Photo: Focus Features To be fair, Gerard Butler — who, interestingly, started his career as a lawyer — has given some terrific performances over the years, whether as Ralph Fiennes’s snarly Volscian foil, Aufidius, in 2011’s Coriolanus or as a gone-to-seed Los Angeles cop in last year’s crime epic Den of Thieves . But for many years, he seemed like a star-in-waiting, searching for a niche.
Gerard Butler in Hunter Killer, which is not Geostorm. Photo: Lionsgate It’s not just the Has Fallen series, however, that make Butler such a throwback. Late last year he starred in Hunter Killer, a somewhat ridiculous but genuinely tense and entertaining submarine picture that felt like it had emerged from a time capsule.
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