Skeet Ulrich is one of the many actors that a lot of people came to like early on when they first saw him but somehow faded off after a while when it was apparent that he wasn’t really going much of anywhere with his career. He’s still around, but his popularity has dimmed quite a bit and it’s too bad since he’s a talented actor and is able to step into a role and really make people absolutely hate his character or possibly feel some sense of sympathy for him. In many ways he’s one of those actors that might have come on too strong or been pushed too much in the early going and kind of burned out after a while, thereby disappearing as a necessity rather than because he’d done what he came to do. That being the case though, Skeet is still a gifted actor that might need a little more exposure to mount a comeback that could put him on top again.
Here are five of his best movies thus far.
5. Armored
So quite honestly it’s easy to see how some jobs would be kind of hazardous and wouldn’t pay enough. Being a part of the group that’s assigned to protect an armored car though does seem like it could be an exercise in boredom, or a nerve-rending experience that might end in a very bad way. In this movie however the danger doesn’t come from without but within as the armored car employees are the ones that are attempting to make the heist. This only makes things more dangerous since they’re well-trained and they know how the system works. Thankfully one among their number at least has a conscience.
4. Touch
Hands on healing is something that a lot of people want to believe in, but it does draw its fair share of skeptics, since the idea of replacing modern medicine with something that is far more spiritual and less easily defined, therefore making it less trustworthy to many people. But when one man seems able to heal people just with a touch and even shows stigmata now and again it rouses a lot of interest as well as suspicion, making life a little more difficult for him as well as those around him since there are those that would love to cash in on this ability and there are plenty that would love to debunk it.
3. The Newton Boys
The movie does take a lot of artistic license when it comes to what really happened during the course of the Newton’s bank-robbing career, but it’s still entertaining since the five robbers do manage to make it kind of fun in a very lawless sort of way. Joe is the youngest of the bunch and has the most reservations largely because he’s a good country boy that never had much use for the city before and his brother Jess came to help out Willis. Still, throughout the movie Joe is the guy that continues to question and wonder just when enough is going to be enough, though in truth he’s also one of the strongest-willed among them.
2. The Craft
Chris is the popular high school jerk that you tend to fall in with and hope to never fall out with, or the guy you avoid like the plague since if he can find a weakness he’s going to exploit it to the fullest. Sarah finds this out the hard way when Chris spreads the false rumor that the two of them slept together and that she was terrible in bed. Unfortunately for Chris, Sarah joins up with three honest to goodness witches that have nothing less than revenge on their minds for those that they have a grudge against. His end isn’t exactly the worst in the world but it’s regrettable since it indicates that guys like him can’t change.
1. Scream
Billy is, once again, the guy that a lot of people like and can’t help but gravitate towards, but at the same time he’s not king of the school. Instead he’s a very disturbed individual whose mother ran out on him thanks to his girlfriend’s mother and her dalliance with his father. Of course that might mess someone up, but at the same time it’s not bound to turn everyone into a psychotic killer. Something seems to indicate that Billy and Stu simply got a taste for murder when all was said and done, though it’s pretty obvious that they would rather dish it out than take the pain themselves, as Stu’s reaction seems to indicate.
Skeet does have a movie coming up in 2020, but it’d be great to see him take the lead again in another movie or two, or three, just to see him do what he’s so good at. He’s already stated he needs a challenge, so maybe it would be agreeable to give him one.
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