[Hetty_Fauxvert]

7. Viggo Mortensen

He was a snooze in LOTR — terribly miscast. I thought he was just a bad actor. But then I realized he’d been miscast in LOTR when I saw him in “A History of Violence.” WOW!! What a performance. Some actors will prevail no matter where you put them ... but some actors need the right vehicle. LOTR was NOT it for him.

[This Just In]

I was disappointed in Jackson’s selection.

Viggo’s the weakest actor in the trilogy. The role should have been given to either Jim Caviezel or Liam Neeson.

[Billthedrill]

Ditto on Viggo. He may have other great work but his job in LOTR was simply embarrassing. There was a actor without a single clue as to the role and he tried to swashbuckle his way through it.

I have other disappointments about Jackson's otherwise brilliant realization of the world, notably the fact that Christopher Lee's best work ended up on the cutting room floor and those grotesque Animatronic Ents - what was he thinking? But Viggo was the worst. IMHO.

[Clara Lou]

Interesting. I thought LoTR was his only good work— excellent, actually.

[OriginalChristian]

LOTR was the first and last movie(s) I saw Viggo in. Never heard of him prior to that. What didn’t you like about the way he played Aragorn, and who would you have cast for that role? Jackson omitted so much of the last chapters of ROTK that the ‘kingly’ and ‘healing’ natures of the Aragorn character were never really developed. If you are going to say that Viggo is not a swordfigher, I’d have to concede that point to you, but I thought he played the softer, elvish, thoughtful side of Aragorn pretty convincingly. My $.02 FWIW.