What happened to Russell Crowe’s career? Where did it go wrong?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Critics duly hunted Kraven down, and Crowe’s performance along with it – shooting it, skinning it, and turning it into a winter coat. The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey described Crowe’s attempts at a Russian accent as “Boris-and-Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle-level”; IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote that Crowe “yammers about weakness, fear, and breaking his enemies with enough borscht in his voice to make Ivan Drago seem like a respectful depiction of the average Soviet by comparison”. From his turn as a visibly checked-out and green screen-ensconced Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder, to his scenery-devouring part as Jekyll and Hyde in the abortive franchise-starter The Mummy, Crowe’s career has gone from feast to creative famine, an interminable string of “one for them” films in succession. He has other irons in the fire too: this year has Crowe your own way: Russell stars in new supervillain blockbuster ‘Kraven the Hunter' It’s telling, perhaps, that Crowe’s best late-career roles draw on this comic sensibility.