Although I was first introduced to Ol’Petersen as Grissom, it wasn’t until I watched the TV movie adaptation of the Peter Benchley novel “Beast” (also called Beast) that I actually saw how great he was. He literally turned what should’ve been a crap “made for TV” movie into something I’ve watched many, many times and still continue to enjoy. If you liked Jaws and enjoy sea monster-ish films, I highly recommend it. It terrified me as a child and still does today but any sea monster-ish film does. Just the thought of Architeuthis dux gets me shivering.

To answer your question however, I think Stephen Dorff had an excellent start to his career and, in all honesty, I don’t think he was a bad actor. I just think he got put in big budget films in roles that weren’t quite for him. He was awesome in Space Truckers (highly recommend that as a guilty pleasure too).