Russell Crowe has had quite the odd career hasn't he? Now, he's a famous actor, no one would ever deny that, but after headlining two back-to-back Best Picture winners (
Gladiator and the subject of this review
, A Beautiful Mind) and scoring a Best Actor win, the guy starred in two big projects (
Master And Commander: Far Side of The World and
Cinderella Man) that underperformed financially and then headlined the box office dud
A Good Year in November 2006. In the nearly twelve years since then, he's only starred in a handful of movies and mostly stuck to supporting roles. Not an odd career trajectory at all for a leading man to shift into supporting roles, it just feels, to me anyway, like Crowe's time as a leading man came and went in the blink of an eye given how buzzy he was at the start of the century.
