He really has made his characters totally believable. T-1000, agent Doggett, father of Johnny Cash. I'm really amazed of his acting skills. I wish he would be in another blockbuster movie so everyone could know it.
What really opened my eyes on just how good he is is the episode Via Negativa of X-files season 8. Watch it!
EXACTLY!
via negativa is one of the most impressing episodes of the late x files, tony wharmbys directing and bill roes camera are just superb, but patricks acting is simply stunning.
i am glad that i am not the only one who recognised that ;-)
After T2 people might have thought he may get back to obscurity. But he has worked constantly for 2 decades since then.
Its that man again!!
I totally agree, RP is a terrific actor. He was fantastic as Agent Doggett. Via Negativia is one of my favorite episodes that he did. He was also great as a guest star on The Sopranos and Law and Order SUV.
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"It's My Fair Lady meets Mr Ed"
~Michael Weatherly
Hells YEAH!! He has that thing where he always seems a little meancing tho.....like Ray Liotta, but he's such a good actor....I LOVE him as Agent Doggett!!!
"I've SEEN things you people wouldn't believe...."
It seems you're most impressed by Robert Patrick's acting chops. I'm kind of interested in him, too, but ... more to point, does anyone remember a mid- or
late-Nineties action movie (perhaps a modest-budget production that went straight to home video) that Robert Patrick stars in? He plays some sort of lawman (maybe an FBI agent, maybe a CIA operative, maybe even a combat vet' on
civilian detail). His character goes after and eventually captures this bad guy,
probably amid much carnage and wreckage. The unsurprisingly unrepentant villian,
when in custody (and perhaps in handcuffs) in some tall federal building near the end of the movie, ominously promises Robert Patrick's character (more or less saying): "This isn't over, [character's name], not by a long shot. You should have killed me when you had the chance." That's it! Robert Patrick's character has HAD it with that guy's often-brutal arrogance and insolence. With
other lawmen nearby (who are perhaps now moving in anticipation of danger), Robert Patrick's character lunges at the threatening thug and, cuffs or no cuffs, he sends the bad guy hurtling (perhaps tumbling) backwards and, I believe, straight out the toughened floor-to-ceiling (or NEAR-floor-to-ceiling)
glass window of that "glass tower" building. To his death that rascal plunges (though I doubt they show a body-parts mess). I have repeatedly told myself, over the years, that, despite his similar tallness, his hairdo, his relatively lean frame and his beard, the actor who played the villian IS NOT the comedian-actor Tom Green, who was quite briefly married to actress Drew Barrymore. I've looked over Tom Green's "filmography" here on imdb.com and I see no telltale
"actioner," mid-Nineties, late Nineties or whenever. So does anyone know the name of the movie and who the (relatively lean-bodied) bad guy is?
He did a great job, especially considering he had to contend with "not being Mulder".
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I am watching fire in the sky and have always thought his performance was great in this movie, among others.
shareI think the movie you're referring to is Zero Tolerance. Can't recall the name of the bad guy though, sorry!
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