I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

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.