Random Worst Supervillain Performances In Comic Book Movies (17 items)

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  (#4) Paul Giamatti

  • Saving Private Ryan, Planet of the Apes, The Truman Show, 12 Years a Slave, Donnie Brasco, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Hangover Part II, John Dies at the End, Cinderella Man, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Illusionist, Big Momma's House, American Splendor, Rock of Ages, The Ides of March, Saving Mr. Banks, The Negotiator, Robots, Paycheck, Private Parts, Singles, Dr. Dolittle, Sabrina, Turbo, Man on the Moon, Deconstructing Harry, Shoot 'Em Up, Mighty Aphrodite, Win Win, Lady in the Water, Fred Claus, Before and After, Too Big to Fail, Big Fat Liar, San Andreas, Confidence, Safe Men, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Ant Bully, Ironclad, Duplicity, The Nanny Diaries, Cosmopolis, The Last Station, Straight Outta Compton, Storytelling, Love & Mercy, Barney's Version, Duets, Asterix and the Vikings, If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Madame Bovary, Past Midnight, Prohibition, Cold Souls, The Congress, Parkland, The Goon, Thunderpants, The Amazing Screw-On Head, The Pentagon Papers, The Hawk Is Dying, Romeo and Juliet, Pretty Bird, All is Bright, Winchell, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Fan and the Flower, The Roosevelts

  Quick: what do you think of when you hear the phrase "actor Paul Giamatti?" Affable? Schlubby? Endearing? Chances are, you probably don't think "very intimidating, physically." Yet that's exactly what Giamatti expected audiences to buy in 2014's The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In a film irresponsibly overstuffed with villains, Giamatti tries to stand out by putting on the worst Russian accent known to man and moving like a constipated dumpling.

  He's so unthreatening and forgettable, even the classic move of getting a barbed wire head tattoo can't elevate him above of the level of "wait, was he in that movie? I think he might have been in the first one." 
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  (#17) John Leguizamo

  • Moulin Rouge!, Ice Age, Die Hard 2, Romeo + Juliet, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Carlito's Way, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Chef, The Happening, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Dr. Dolittle, Summer of Sam, Titan A.E., Miracle at St. Anna, Spun, Spawn, The Lincoln Lawyer, Regarding Henry, Ride Along, Casualties of War, Super Mario Bros., Land of the Dead, Assault on Precinct 13, Gamer, Righteous Kill, Executive Decision, The Fan, John Wick, Out for Justice, One for the Money, Vanishing on 7th Street, Repo Men, The Honeymooners, Collateral Damage, Walking with Dinosaurs, What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Empire, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Pest, Arabian Nights, King of the Jungle, The Alibi, Nothing like the Holidays, The Groomsmen, Revenge, The Babysitters, Poison, A Brother's Kiss, Crónicas, Freak, Piñero, Point of Origin, Night Owl, A Pyromaniac's Love Story, Sueño, Rage, Whispers in the Dark, Zig Zag, Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, Fugly!, Mixed Blood, Hangin' with the Homeboys, Surviving Sid, Frogs for Snakes, Undefeated, The Take, Paraiso Travel, Dora the Explorer: Super Silly Fiesta!, Joe the King, Tlatelolco68, Pelotero, Body Count, The Ministers, Waco, Gentille Alouette, Where God Left His Shoes, Time Expired, Cymbeline, Scrat's Continental Crack-up Part 2, American Ultra, Street Hunter, Meadowland, Experimenter, The Infiltrator

  The Clown has always been known as the most menacing and violent of Spawn’s enemies. Whenever he’s around, you can be sure mayhem and bloodshed are not too far behind. This was accurately portrayed in HBO’s animated Spawn series.

  In the 1997 film, not so much. John Leguizamo’s portrayal of the Clown was stacked with toilet humor and painfully heavy attempts at levity. Every time he showed up, audiences prayed that he would just change into his CGI’d counterpart, Violator, and spare everyone from suffering anymore of his antics. According to the Nostalgia Critic’s review, there was supposedly a petition going around to get an apology from Leguizamo for his involvement in Spawn and Super Mario Bros, another awful film.
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  (#12) Svetlana Khodchenkova

  • The Wolverine, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Kilometer Zero, Little Moscow, Rzhevsky vs. Napoleon, Pregnant, Sluzhebnyy roman. Nashe vremya, Bless the Woman

  Among the biggest disappointments in The Wolverine was its portrayal of Madame Viper. She was first introduced as an oncologist and was revealed to be something of a mad scientist with very unclear motivations and methodology - if she can implant a device that nullifies Wolverine’s healing factor, wouldn’t she also be able to steal it?

  And despite showing that she could deliver poison through spitting or scratching someone's skin, she always made it a point to kiss her victims in the most awkward, and unnatural ways. Seriously, her kisses were awful in this film. Towards the end she shed her skin... and for some reason also went bald. Svetlana Khodchenkova's cold acting couldn't do anything to save a character who had already been doomed by the movie's writers. Cool, sexy, and appreciated: this portrayal of Madame Viper managed to tick none of those marks. 
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  (#1) Scott Adkins

  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Expendables 2, Zero Dark Thirty, The Pink Panther, Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, Undisputed III: Redemption, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Ninja, The Medallion, Stag Night, The Legend of Hercules, Assassination Games, The Tournament, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, El Gringo, Pit Fighter, Special Forces, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, Re-Kill, The Shepherd: Border Patrol, Extreme Challenge, Tomb of the Dragon, Grimsby, Green Street 3: Never Back Down

  The Merc with a Mouth is notoriously hard to pin down - sometimes he's working with the forces of good, and other times he has no problem wrecking heroes. In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he's activated by Stryker and becomes a villain Wolverine has to fight (seriously, thank God for the 2016 film Deadpool finally giving audiences a good version of the epic character - they deserved it after this abomination). 

  The X-Men Origins filmmakers wanted to go for a more “realistic” take on Deadpool by manipulating his body to convey similarities with his comic costume. This was a bad idea. First of all, they used skin to cover his mouth as a way mimicking the lack of a mouth hole on his costume. They also gave him adamantium arm blades to emulate his katanas, and optic blasts that imitated the signature look of his mask. The whole thing was a sh*t show, and sparked a lot of disappointment from fans. On top of that, these awful "costume" choices made it nearly impossible for Scott Adkins to really inhabit the role - he didn't even have a mouth to speak with. Talk about being set up to fail. 
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  (#13) Vinnie Jones

  • X-Men: The Last Stand, Snatch, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, She's the Man, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, EuroTrip, Swordfish, Gone in 60 Seconds, Year One, Kill the Irishman, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, The Midnight Meat Train, Escape Plan, The Condemned, Mean Machine, The Big Bounce, Hell Ride, Submerged, Locked Down, Slipstream, The Ballad of G.I. Joe, Johnny Was, Strength and Honour, Cross, Age of the Dragons, Freelancers, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, Fire with Fire, Blast, Not Another Not Another Movie, Blood Out, (Untitled), Played, The Bleeding, Hijacked, Shamrock Boy, The Other Half, The Heavy, Night at the Golden Eagle, Powers, The Riddle, You May Not Kiss the Bride, Tooth and Nail, Company of Heroes, Assault of Darkness, Mentryville, 7-10 Split, Survive Style 5+, Tooth: Do You Believe in Fairies?, Loaded, The Number One Girl, Hollywood Flies, The 34th Battalion, Fractured, Redirected, Lurid, Extraction, Reaper, Way of the Wicked

  While not a stranger to villainous roles, Vinnie Jones is often cast as a person sporting eloquence in speech and a calculating mindset. His characters often save the use of brute force for the last minute. These are qualities the Juggernaut does not possess, and Jones's resulting portrayal in X-Men: The Last Stand fell completely flat as a result. The awkwardness of this role drowned out any breathing room for exhibiting subtle emotions or any depth of character, and the acting is just awful as a result.  
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  (#6) Toby Kebbell

  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War Horse, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, RocknRolla, Dead Man's Shoes, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Wrath of the Titans, Match Point, Alexander, Control, The Conspirator, The East, The Fantastic Four, Wilderness, The Counselor, Chéri, Warcraft, The Veteran, Northern Soul, Control, The German, Tea and Biscuits, Buddha's Little Finger, Ben-Hur

  It's frustrating to see one of the most badass supervillains of the Marvel Universe get so poorly portrayed time and time again. The Fantastic Four reboot from 2015 is best remembered as a movie that did a great job in taking too much time focusing on the things that didn’t matter, while taking too little to explore the things that did.

  There was absolutely no exploration of Dr. Doom's time spent on Planet Zero prior to the moment when he received powers from his space suit. And the character's motivations throughout the film were murky at best. Toby Kebbell sported some charisma in his role as Doom, but the combination of horrible writing and direction hindered Kebbell’s performance. Dr. Doom ended up as a weak, plot-driven obstacle that the heroes overcame in less than half an hour. Terrible CGI, and a cheesy hood and cape didn't help, either. 

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