One of Hollywood’s most dependably top-notch actors, Guy Pearce has hardly ever given a subpar performance throughout the course of his career. Pearce has undoubtedly starred in a number of great favourites on both television and movies. In the lauded HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown, he recently gave one of the best performances of his career. Below are the top 7 best Guy Pearce movies of all time in descending order.
1. Leonard Shelby in Memento (2000)
Director- Christopher Nolan
The complex, mind-bending adventure Memento is a memory inside a memory. Leonard is sworn to exact revenge for his wife’s killing. He has to write himself notes after notes that still don’t mean anything when he goes to sleep because he is unable to remember everything that occurs on a daily basis owing to a condition he has, short term memory loss. The movie travels through time to disclose each piece of the puzzle as the protagonist searches for the person responsible for his wife’s murder, leaving the spectator feeling just as perplexed as he is. The story takes place immediately after a phone call Pearce makes during which he discusses Sammy Jankis, a former customer he thought shared the same problem.
2. Edmund Exley in L.A. Confidential (1997)
Director- Curtis Hanson
In 1950s Los Angeles, Mickey Cohen’s gang’s members are got murder. People from Jersey, Cleveland, and other places are persuaded to return home by the police, under the direction of Captain Dudley. Pierce Patchett, a wealthy businessman, manages a stable of affluent hookers who pass for movie stars. Three plainclothes officers are caught off guard by the Cohen replacement scheme: Exley’s father was a hero cop slain strangely; he seeks justice according to the law; and Vicennes, a clothes horse, advises for a Dragnet-like TV show. White watched his father beat his mother to death then disappear; he punishes abusers with fast violence.
3. King Edward VIII in The King’s Speech (2010)
Director- Tom Hooper
The Duke of York suffers public speaking difficulties in 1925 and has a stammer. Elizabeth, his wife, seeks treatment from unconventionally structured speech therapist Lionel Logue; nevertheless, Bertie discontinues the course of therapy after the first session. Nevertheless, Bertie resumes the therapy after hearing the session that Lionel recorded. Due to his older brother King Edward VIII’s abdication, the Duke of York is compell to ascend to the British throne as King George VI in the middle of the 1930s. The government immediately experiences a crisis, and Britain then declares war on Germany. In order to assist King George VI in giving a speech to his countrymen, his buddy Lionel employs an unconventional method.
4. Sergeant Matt Thompson in The Hurt Locker (2009)
Director- Kathryn Bigelow
They are about a month into their deployment when SFC William James joins Bravo Company in Iraq. He was sent to replace Sgt. Matt Thompson, a longtime team member who was just got murdered while removing an IED, as a bomb disposal specialist. James enjoys an emotional high when he gets to perform what he does best, which is why saying that he loves what he does falls short. James’ squadmates, Sgt. JT Sanborn and Spc. Owen Eldridge, merely wish to survive the few days of service they still have left, but James’ recklessness pushes them all to the brink.
5. Eric in The Rover (2014)
Director- David Michôd
Australia has turned into a lawless wasteland ten years after the collapse of the west. Taciturn Eric moves from town to town looking for signs of life as desperate strangers plunder the nation’s priceless mineral wealth. Then, one day, Eric becomes a victim of ruthless criminals who take his car. Rey, their injure accomplice in crime, is left behind by the robbers as they flee. Rey is coerce into helping Eric find the individuals who left him for dead as he swears to use all means necessary to regain his most priceless property.
The Rover is the best Guy Pearce movie. It is directed by David Michod and written by Michod and Joel Edgerton.
6. Charley Rakes in Lawless (2012)
Director- John Hillcoat
Up in the highlands of Franklin County, Virginia, during the Great Depression, the three Bondurant brothers operate a bootlegging business. The brothers’ profits are what corrupt Special Deputy Charles Rakes is after. Their problems turns worse by the neighbourhood rivals who are interfering with their business. The brothers are able to secure a local monopoly thanks to Forrest’s noisy disobedience and Cricket’s skill with moonshine production. We watch Jack, who was initially the shy one, change into a cocky exhibitionist in his attempts to pursue Bertha, the off-limits preacher’s daughter, when Forrest is hurt and tension with Rakes rises. Jack was first the timid one.
7. Peter Weyland in Prometheus (2012)
Director- Ridley Scott
The accomplished archaeologist Doctor Elizabeth Shaw and her colleague Charlie Holloway set out on an ambitious deep-space research mission with a seventeen-man team, following a thin trail of clues. In 2093, a team of pioneers in space exploration, the USCSS Prometheus, land on the barren exomoon LV-223 to explore the possibility of the existence of the superior extraterrestrial species known as the “Engineers.” More mysteries, however, lie there, concealed under an enigmatic, complicated structure made up of vast, dark chambers and a complex network of tunnels. The outcome of the audacious space expedition as well as the entire destiny of humanity are now in danger due to a horrifying revelation.
