By Zach Seemayer
4:15 PM PDT, April 13, 2014
Sons Of Anarchystar Ron Perlman, best known outside ofSOAfor his work inPacific RimandHellboy, turns 64 today, and continues to produce powerful, thrilling and often terrifying work.
In honor of the actor's birthday, here are his five highest-rated films, based on their Rotten TomatoesScore.
In honor of the actor's birthday, here are his five highest-rated films, based on their Rotten TomatoesScore.
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Birthday Boy Ron Perlman's Highest-Rated Flicks
Sons Of Anarchy star Ron Perlman, best known outside of SOA for his work in Pacific Rim and Hellboy, turns 64 today, and continues to produce powerful, thrilling and often terrifying work.
In honor of the actor's birthday, here are his five highest-rated films, based on their Rotten Tomatoes Score.
In honor of the actor's birthday, here are his five highest-rated films, based on their Rotten Tomatoes Score.
#5. 'Quest For Fire'
Twentieth Century Fox
Year: 1982
RT Score: 83
In one of the stranger films in Perlman's career, Quest For Fire follows three prehistoric humans who must search for a source of fire before their tribe perishes. They trio comes upon a group of cannibals who know how to start fires, but are about to kill a young woman. The group rescues her, hoping she will repay them with the gift of fire. Perlman plays a primal tribesman named Amoukar and this is the first film where we see his talent at blending in to a heavily-costumed character, like he would later have to do in the TV series Beauty And The Beast and Hellboy. Speaking of Hellboy…
RT Score: 83
In one of the stranger films in Perlman's career, Quest For Fire follows three prehistoric humans who must search for a source of fire before their tribe perishes. They trio comes upon a group of cannibals who know how to start fires, but are about to kill a young woman. The group rescues her, hoping she will repay them with the gift of fire. Perlman plays a primal tribesman named Amoukar and this is the first film where we see his talent at blending in to a heavily-costumed character, like he would later have to do in the TV series Beauty And The Beast and Hellboy. Speaking of Hellboy…
#4. 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'
Universal
Year: 2008
RT Score: 87%
When it came to playing the huge, bright-red hell monster who fights on the side of the good guys, there really wasn't anyone to choose by Ron Perlman. He was great in the first Hellboy (which has a 81% on Rotten Tomatoes), but the story and Guillermo del Toro's signature vision were held back a bit by reverence to the source material. In Hellboy II, del Toro let his imagination run wild and created some of the most incredible creatures and action sequences put to film this decade.
RT Score: 87%
When it came to playing the huge, bright-red hell monster who fights on the side of the good guys, there really wasn't anyone to choose by Ron Perlman. He was great in the first Hellboy (which has a 81% on Rotten Tomatoes), but the story and Guillermo del Toro's signature vision were held back a bit by reverence to the source material. In Hellboy II, del Toro let his imagination run wild and created some of the most incredible creatures and action sequences put to film this decade.
#3. 'Cronos'
Year: 1993
RT Score: 89% (Based on 47 reviews)
Cronos is a dark, beautifully haunting vampire horror film, and also Guillermo del Toro's directorial debut. Perlman's role is not as huge as it is in the Hellboy films, but he gives a key performance that dictates the direction of the story dramatically, and gives the ethereal film a realism, grounded in a thuggish gritty anger. To explain the premise would really take away from the constant surprise and tension of the film, but suffice to say it's one of the best horror films ever made.
RT Score: 89% (Based on 47 reviews)
Cronos is a dark, beautifully haunting vampire horror film, and also Guillermo del Toro's directorial debut. Perlman's role is not as huge as it is in the Hellboy films, but he gives a key performance that dictates the direction of the story dramatically, and gives the ethereal film a realism, grounded in a thuggish gritty anger. To explain the premise would really take away from the constant surprise and tension of the film, but suffice to say it's one of the best horror films ever made.
#2. 'Tangled'
Disney
Year: 2010
RT Score: 89% (Based off 186 reviews)
In Disney's retelling and reimagining of the classic Rapunzel fairy tale, Mandy Moore, and Chuck's Zachary Levi provide the voice talent for Rapunzel and her love interest, the roguish conman Flynn Rider. Perlman plays both of the no-so-subtly-named Stabbington Brothers, Flynn's former associates. His voice is instantly recognizable, and powerfully intimidating, with a vocal range and tonal uniqueness that makes him perfect for voicing a Disney character.
RT Score: 89% (Based off 186 reviews)
In Disney's retelling and reimagining of the classic Rapunzel fairy tale, Mandy Moore, and Chuck's Zachary Levi provide the voice talent for Rapunzel and her love interest, the roguish conman Flynn Rider. Perlman plays both of the no-so-subtly-named Stabbington Brothers, Flynn's former associates. His voice is instantly recognizable, and powerfully intimidating, with a vocal range and tonal uniqueness that makes him perfect for voicing a Disney character.
#1. 'Drive'
FilmDistrict
Year: 2011
RT Score: 93%
In this brooding neo-noir masterpiece, Ryan Gosling is a professional stunt driver and getaway driver who ends up getting involved with the wrong people. Namely Albert Brooks, and his right hand man Nino, played by an absolutely terrifying Ron Perlman. This is one of Perlman's defining works, in that is summarizes every bit of intimidation and fear that Perlman has infused in so much of his career, but is able to balance it with a nuanced and oddly-tragic inferiority complex.
RT Score: 93%
In this brooding neo-noir masterpiece, Ryan Gosling is a professional stunt driver and getaway driver who ends up getting involved with the wrong people. Namely Albert Brooks, and his right hand man Nino, played by an absolutely terrifying Ron Perlman. This is one of Perlman's defining works, in that is summarizes every bit of intimidation and fear that Perlman has infused in so much of his career, but is able to balance it with a nuanced and oddly-tragic inferiority complex.