Mel Gibson has never excited me as a person or an actor.
One of his first films, 'Tim' was a beautiful film about a mentally slow guy. Mel Gibson was lovely back then.
Bit like Russell Crowe, he was lovely once too. His film The Sum Of Us, he plays a gay guy,
If you click about 5 minutes into these, you can see what they were like when they first started out as actors in Australian films.