I've actually enjoyed quite a few of his roles. Snatch, Interview with the Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Seven, even Cool World, he was good in. And Cool World was absolutely terrible.
But... at some point - I think immediately after Troy - he fell into the same trap as Johnny Depp and Bruce Willis; No matter the role or character, he was told, basically, "Just be Brad Pitt." 'Cause really, you know that in a lot of these, he's being cast just so they can have "Brad Pitt" in the credits. Ten lines in Twelve Years a Slave? That's a waste of a casting... but he's in the credits, so he can be on the poster.
No shit, this is the Italian movie poster!
Chiwetel Ejiofor? Who the fuck is Chiwetel Ejiofor?
And then you have something like World War Z. I will leave aside my disappointments with this movie, for they are many and vast... But just think... would you cast Brad Pitt as the lead in a zombie apocalypse movie> Oh lord! it's dumber than Tom Cruise in a Sci-Fi doomsday movie! At least that cast job had the ironic amusement of Scientology to snicker about.
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