There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

The BBC reported "a fine and solid performance" but included other reviews of Law's interpretation that were mixed. Ripley in 1999 and then again for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Cold Mountain in 2003. Law starred as a celebrity supermodel in the film Rage and blogger and "prophet" Alan Krumwiede in the 2011 medical thriller Contagion.

He is also known for his role as Dr. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr.