However, his two follow-up roles, as a vampire hunter in Priest (2011) and as the titular justice-dispensing judge of Dredd (2012), both failed to make a significant impact at the box office.
Part of a star-studded cast assembled for the action-comedy Red (2010), Urban wound up taking his during an extended fight sequence with Bruce Willis, though the pain was offset by the film's critical and commercial success. Urban went on to reprise the character for the film sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016). "I can judge that by the number of offers and how often the phone rings since Star Trek came out." "I have no doubt that some people perceived me as just being simply an action guy, but playing 'Bones' went a long way toward convincing them otherwise," he told Tulsa World in 2010. Following a return to his home country to star in Out of the Blue (2006), about a mass shooting in a small New Zealand community, Urban resumed his Hollywood career as the lead of the Viking-era Pathfinder (2007). The mega-success of The Lord of the Rings paved the way for a slew of action roles for Urban: He stared down Vin Diesel as Commander Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) stalked Matt Damon as a Russian assassin in The Bourne Supremacy and gunned down mutants alongside Dwayne Johnson in the video game-inspired Doom (2005).
'The Chronicles of Riddick,' 'The Bourne Supremacy,' 'Doom'
Although his part of the warrior Éomer was fairly minor in an epic filled with A-list stars and stunning special effects, Urban nevertheless made his presence felt with his physicality and fierce glare. Urban's performance in The Price of Milk also caught the attention of director Peter Jackson, who cast the rising actor in The Lord of the Rings’ second and third installments, The Two Towers (2002) and Return of the King (2003).
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