Zac Efron is a great actor but an annoying career trend that continued with Firestarter is holding him back. In Firestarter, Efron stars as Andy McGee, the father of a girl who can create and control fire with her mind. Although Zac Efron's performance has been praised, the adaptation of Stephen King's novel has received largely negative reviews, which continues a frustrating pattern in his career.
Zac Efron's breakthrough role came in Disney's Zac Efron to appear in the MCU. Efron's career to date, though, has been plagued by an annoying trend.
Zac Efron's talents are so often squandered in the sub-par movies he has starred in, and Firestarter continues his habit of picking bad projects. Although he gives a good performance in Firestarter, not even his star quality is able to save the movie, which wastes its interesting premise. Efron has starred in excellent films which have enabled him to showcase his range, including his self-aware comedic performance in The Greatest Showman. But his great roles are constantly undermined by the poor movies he subsequently finds himself in.
Almost every Zac Efron hit is soon followed by a disappointing miss. His co-starring role in Dirty Grandpa was named the worst film ever made by various critics. The failure of these sorts of films is generally not because of the acting ability of Zac Efron or his fellow castmates; it is almost always down to bad writing.
Efron has been in Hollywood for nearly two decades now and shouldn't need to settle for underwhelming scripts. In 2020, he branched out to create the travel documentary Zac Efron's first Oscar nomination will come from his role in The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Zac Efron has proven that he is a reliable actor who can elevate his films. Still, going forward, he needs to be more selective about the movies he stars in to break his frustrating career trend of hits and misses, which continued with Firestarter.
