These actors really gave it their worst.
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00:00No matter which way the Hollywood winds have blown lately, big and small hitters from across
00:04the A-list have delivered some pretty listless performances.
00:08Granted it's not always the actors fault.
00:11Whatever the cause, no matter the symptom, even the more decent films didn't stand a
00:16chance with these actors putting in their worst performances.
00:19So with that in mind, I'm Adam, this is WhatCulture, and here are 9 more actors who
00:24just gave their worst performance ever.
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01:479.
01:48Chris Evans Ghosted Chris Evans and Ana de Armas first set our screens
01:53on fire in Rian Johnson's mystery movie Knives Out.
01:56This was followed up by an antagonistic set up in the Russo brothers actioneer The Grey
02:00Man which, although not an out and out success, still showed the pair made good big screen companions.
02:06Therefore, it made sense that producers wanted to get them back together in a more cooperative
02:11role.
02:12Unfortunately, the film that united them for the third time was the secret agent action
02:16comedy Ghosted.
02:18Failing on both the action and comedy fronts, the film suffers from not really knowing what
02:22it is and where it belongs and this extends to the cast.
02:26De Armas is bad, the usually reliable Evans is worse and the pair don't have enough chemistry
02:32to strike a spark, never mind set fires.
02:35Now, much of the blame here can be placed on the script and overall direction of Ghosted,
02:40but the rest is on the performances.
02:43No two ways about it, Evans is the worst thing about this dull disaster.
02:48He falls flat on the banter and doesn't even sell a moment of the supposedly budding relationship
02:53with his co-star.
02:54Definitely an all time worst for the man who led Captain America and Snowpiercer.
02:59It's fair to say that Harry Styles is really only at the beginning of his acting career,
03:07with Dunkirk, Don't Worry Darling, My Policeman and a cameo in Eternals as Eros under his belt.
03:13In his small amount of acting however, he has demonstrated that in the right role he can
03:17actually shine.
03:18But in a more dramatically challenging role, the limitations of his range really begins
03:23to show, which is evident from his performance in My Policeman.
03:28Styles plays Tom, a closeted policeman in late 1950s England who falls in love with Patrick
03:33and Marion in a complex love triangle, but the implied anxiety and struggles his character
03:38faces are lost in a monotone performance of flat line delivery.
03:42Seriously, it's like he's just reading from the page for the first time.
03:46David Dawson absolutely carries the scenes he shares with Styles, and it's very difficult,
03:52if at all possible, to buy Tom's innocence as anything but disinterest from Styles.
03:58Styles will continue to build his acting career because, hello, it's bloody Harry Styles,
04:02but his beautiful face and celebrity status will only take him so far.
04:07If he wants to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor, then he really needs to give better
04:11than what he offered in My Policeman.
04:147.
04:15William Fichtner, Hypnotic.
04:17Once a director you could comfortably mention in the same breath as Quentin Tarantino, Robert
04:22Rodriguez has spent the bulk of his career since the 90s creating a pretty uneven filmography,
04:28with highs in Once Upon a Time in Mexico and lows in Sin City a dame to kill for.
04:33His recent effort Hypnotic sadly falls into the latter bracket, taking us into a sub-matrix
04:38world where illusion and VR reign supreme.
04:42Despite having Ben Affleck in the lead role, who can if nothing else definitely put in a performance
04:46and pull serious numbers, the film is uninspired, confused, derivative and, well, just really
04:53dull.
04:54Fichtner stars opposite the ex-bat as Del Raine, a gifted hypnotic who knocks over banks, takes
05:00no prisoners and has something to do with the disappearance of Detective Danny Rourke's
05:04son.
05:05Fichtner is an old hand at this kind of role, but that is precisely what's wrong.
05:10He spends the film sleepwalking through a part he's played a hundred times before.
05:14But it's not all on him, the script is thin, the dialogue stiff and every actor on screen
05:19suffers as a result.
05:216.
05:22Amy Adams Disenchanted Disenchanted follows up the 2007 fairy tale
05:27fantasy Enchanted, where the young, animated Giselle is blasted into the real world, in
05:33a real body, by a piece of sinister magic, and must find her way home before she's trapped
05:38there forever.
05:39Naturally she found her handsome prince in the form of divorce attorney Robert Phillip and
05:43opted to stay, signing off with a happily ever after, well, almost.
05:49Disney has never been afraid of resurrecting an old property to profit off the back of the
05:53name and brand recognition, and so the House of Mouse dug up the bones of this moderate success
05:58story to put together a jangly sequel it could release straight to streaming.
06:03The sparkle of the first film is gone, along with its originality, and though Adams returned,
06:08for an as of yet undisclosed sum, Disenchanted finds her at a career low.
06:14It's totally at odds with the role that she's playing, her performance feels weighed down
06:18by something, as if she herself has lost the magic.
06:21But don't say the title didn't warn you.
06:245.
06:25Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
06:28Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny had fans of the 80's adventurer raring to go, hoping
06:34that this, likely Harrison Ford's last outing in the role, would redeem the middling kingdom
06:38of the crystal skull and go out on a high.
06:41And while not the worst thing ever, James Mangold's entry into the series doesn't offer a whole
06:47lot to get excited about.
06:49All the hallmarks are there, the hat, the whip, the dry humour, but none of it feels fresh
06:54or essential.
06:55Least essential of all though is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Helena Shaw, Indy's goddaughter and a slippery
07:01grifter to the core, more interested in getting her own way than sincerely engaging with the
07:05history old Dr. Jones is interested in.
07:08Having already succeeded on stage and television to a significant degree, a career low for Waller-Bridge
07:13isn't as damning as it sounds.
07:15Nevertheless, she brings a deep smugness to a 2.5 dimensional part in the Dial of Destiny.
07:21That only serves to highlight the inadequacies in the plot and character motivations.
07:26No doubt designed to remind us of the savvy and street smart Marion from Indy's first
07:30adventure, Waller-Bridge's delivery is instead smarmy to a fault.
07:35And to you that's watching, let's balance this out just a little bit.
07:38Why don't you let us know down in the comments of your favourite recent movie performance.
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07:464.
07:47Shawnee Smith – Saw X
07:49Despite Saw's self-proclaimed final chapter coming around in 2010, the Splatter franchise
07:54has lived on in various spin-offs and prequels since.
07:58While the quality of the films has varied wildly, Tobin Bell has been the one stalwart performance,
08:04marshalling the role in Saw X, the latest and potentially final installment involving Jigsaw
08:09killer John Kramer with a gravitas hitherto unseen in the franchise.
08:14His castmate Shawnee Smith didn't come quite as prepared.
08:18Returning as Jigsaw's protégé Amanda, Smith cleaved away the more tender and conflicted
08:23aspects of Amanda's personality and switched the hysteria up to full gear.
08:28This gives Amanda a kind of raw thirst for blood and punishment in Saw X that she rarely if
08:33ever openly displayed in the original films.
08:36Perhaps the full blame can't be laid on Smith's shoulders however, as almost everything
08:40about Saw X was constructed to give longtime fans the serving the studio clearly thinks
08:45they needed, only leaving room for Kramer to have any character development.
08:50And the less said about that insane wig, the better.
08:543.
08:55David Duchovny, You People
08:57With the weight of the world's money behind it, Netflix has presided over a raft of sensational
09:01films over the past decade, but it has also introduced us to some absolute shockers.
09:07Despite having Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy on board, You People is of the latter category.
09:12The basic premise is geeky white Jewish man falls in love with a hip black woman, and the
09:17ensuing cultural clash that occurs via her overbearing father.
09:22Somehow director Kenya Barris manages to bungle this premise, and everyone comes out of it
09:26worse for wear, with You People's depiction of Jewish characters coming in for heavy criticism
09:31following its release.
09:33Murphy and Hill have had plenty of career duds to rival this, but the film's standout bad
09:38performance is David Duchovny, simply because it's the worst he's turned in yet.
09:43The usually humorous and charismatic actor struggles with a straightforward, embarrassing
09:47dad part, supposedly representing white boomer Judaism in a way that never lands.
09:53Again, as is so often the case, the weakness of the dialogue and script in general do a lot
09:58of harm here, but you'd think Duchovny would have been able to work through it better than
10:02this.
10:032.
10:04Ashton Kutcher, Your Place or Mine
10:07From one Netflix disaster to another, Your Place or Mine is another entry in the canon
10:12of the middling to awful romcoms the streamer churns out on a regular basis.
10:18Except this time, instead of hiring the next up and coming nobody to flounder in the surf,
10:23they got naughty's romcom darlings Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon.
10:27The pair play Peter and Debbie, best friends who swap houses for a week, discovering in the
10:31process that the lives they think they want may not be what's best for them, and that
10:36each other might be the answer.
10:37Like Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail Before, the film keeps its romantic leads
10:42apart for as long as possible.
10:44But while this worked with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who seem if not made for each other
10:48and at least comfortable in each other's presence, it doesn't for Kutcher and Witherspoon.
10:53Their long distance interactions and screentime together speak not of two friends of 20 years,
10:58but of an awkward couple who have been forced together for someone else's amusement, probably
11:03ours.
11:04And this is Kutcher's fault more than anything, sleepwalking through his scenes, soft serving
11:08the emotional moments and cruising towards the easy payday at the end of it all.
11:13Given that he has starred in films like Dude Where's My Car, he should be embarrassed
11:17that this one is his worst.
11:201.
11:21Megan Fox The Expendables 4
11:23With nearly a decade since the previous instalment in Sylvester Stallone's all action Guns and
11:28Muscle film series, it was high time for another Expendables.
11:31The world and filmmaking have moved on since 2014, and there was a real opportunity to comment
11:37on this, lampooning the 80's action hero in a new light while bringing on some young
11:41stars of today and tomorrow.
11:44But no, Stallone instead brought together the remaining fragments of the old team, or basically
11:49anyone he could get to still run around dodging bullets and explosions, and a host of new martial
11:54arts star villains, as well as 50 Cent, Andy Garcia and Megan Fox.
12:00Inhabiting a similar yet more physically involved role to the one Charisma Carpenter had in the
12:04first couple of films, Fox is Lee Christmas' on again, off again girlfriend and new leader
12:10of the Expendables team.
12:12Not known for her action chops, the decision to bring Fox on board jars with the premise
12:16of the series, to bring together action legends in one film.
12:20Delivering lines throughout as if she's reading them for the very first time, the ex-Transformer
12:24star stuck out as hammy and unconvincing in a film series that is supposed to thrive on
12:29being hammy and unconvincing.
12:32The plot and dialogue aren't exactly up to scratch, but neither is Fox's performance,
12:37which helps to bring the film, and by extension the series, to new, perhaps unrecoverable lows.