Most underrated acting performance?

Violator79

Take a Hit, Spunker!
I say Val Kilmer in Tombstone.

This. Most underrated performance I've ever seen. He was robbed of an Oscar IMO, at least a nomination to be sure.

Christian Bale in American Psycho.

So good was his performance that I saw the movie 6 times in the theater. The scene when he's confessing his crimes at the end is mindblowingly good.
 
Sorry guys,but I don't know how you think Val Kilmer's performance in Tombstone is anywhere near underrated,considering that he has all the best lines that everyone repeats when talking about the movie to there friends.

His performance was awesome and always gets the respect that it deserves(except from the Oscars,of course).

My choices are Edward Norton in Primal Fear,Sean Penn in I Am Sam,and everything that Daniel Day Lewis does.He's hands down the best living actor,with Gary Oldman not far behind.
 

LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
Peter Weller as Edgar Rice Burroughs in Naked Lunch, Christian Bale in the Machinist, Willem DaFoe in To Live And Die In LA, Ralph Finnes in Red Dragon.
 

ApolloBalboa

Was King of the Board for a Day
Kurtwood Smith in Robocop is one of the most chilling villains I've ever seen, in a "in your face" kind of way, I always found it a shame that he didn't receive more recognition for that. Jeff Goldblum in The Fly is excellent too, I mention it because I know he got snubbed for a nomination, which I think he richly deserved.

I'd agree with most of what's been said already as well.
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
5. John Turturro--Bernie Bernbaum, Miller's Crossing
4. Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada--Young Amir, The Kite Runner
3. Ron Silver--Alan Dershowitz, Reversal Of Fortune
2. Robert Mitchum--Harry Powell, The Night Of The Hunter

1. David Bowie--Tesla, The Prestige
 
Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs
 
Peter Weller as Edgar Rice Burroughs in Naked Lunch, Christian Bale in the Machinist, Willem DaFoe in To Live And Die In LA, Ralph Finnes in Red Dragon.

I was gonna go with Bale in The Machinist, but decided American Psycho was the better choice.
 
I was gonna go with Bale in The Machinist, but decided American Psycho was the better choice.

He's much better in the Machinist is for nothing else,the way he had to emaciate himself for the role.That's fucking commitment to your craft.
 
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