Truly Awful Performances By A Lead Actor

I find i am becoming more & more selective with what i buy now as there has been so much crap released lately. Although i do enjoy a good root around in the bargin bin at morrisons. I found the deluxe version of cleopatra in there for
 
Daniel Radcliffe in EVERYTHING.

David Tennant in 'Dr Who' (he has 3 expressions, shocked, bemused and confused).

Keanu Reeves in 'Street Kings', a really, really abysmal performance (although i did find the Dracula film he was in quite funny, i kept wanting him to shout "DUUUUUUUUUDE", lol).

Tom Welling in 'Smallville' (same as Tennant in 'Dr Who', but with one more expression: Kryptonite pain! Which pretty much involves rolling around on the floor like an upside down turtle while making a face that resembles someone taking a REALLY big dump).

Jason Beghe in 'Monkey Shines' (absolutely hilarious, albeit unintentional, performance. "That's what you'd like isn't it...f*ck....face!").

The main guy from Napoleon Dynamite...

Anything with Jean Claude Van Damme.
 
You had a bit role in a Danny Dyer film? Were you the jellied eels stall owner, or the cockney football fan in the nuclear? :D
 
Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.I spent the whole film either cringing at him or wanting to laugh at him,I genuinely thought he was awful.
 
Fack orf! ;)



I agree that Routh was a bag of wank, but do you think he was the only poor factor in that film? Shirley, it would have been shite with anyone in that role.
 
Hopkins as Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.

Great actor, but 'scary'?. Only if you have a phobia about hammy, pantomime performances.

Give me Brian Cox anyday.
 
Nic Cage seems to have a lot of bad performances in a lot of bad films (and occasionally bad performances in reasonable films). Sooner or later, that has to average out to something pretty near to "bad actor"?
 
Have I said this before - if so I apologise - but I really can't watch Ben Stiller or his sidekick ... the one who was in the travesty that was the Starsky and Hutch movie (throws up).
 
James McAvoy in "The Last King of Scotland" and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic".
Not so much bad acting ( they are both fine actors ) as bad casting.

A lot of mentions here for Nicholas Cage..he was awful in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". Bad casting again, he is good in the "off-beat maverick" roles but usually goes OTT in fairly straight parts.
 
Point taken, but maybe now he's getting on, he's not being given the massive roles in say a Transformers or an Indiana Jones, so he has to stick to lower budget versions, like Next or that skull, fiery chain, motorbike movie.

But let's not forget Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, Moonstruck, Raising Arizona, Snake Eyes, etc.
 
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