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

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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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  (#3) Peter Sarsgaard

  • Green Lantern, Garden State, Boys Don't Cry, Dead Man Walking, Jarhead, An Education, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Cell, Rendition, Blue Jasmine, Knight and Day, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Salton Sea, Orphan, The Skeleton Key, Kinsey, Flightplan, Shattered Glass, Robot and Frank, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Unconditional Love, In the Electric Mist, Another Day in Paradise, Lovelace, The Center of the World, Housebound, Empire, Very Good Girls, Elegy, The Dying Gaul, Death of a Dynasty, Desert Blue, Night Moves, Year of the Dog, Subway Stories, High Falls, Pawn Sacrifice, Wholphin: Issue 4, Freak City, Bone Tomahawk, Experimenter

  Sarsgaard’s performance as Hector Hammond in Green Lantern told the story of one man’s journey to become a brilliant, cosmic, screaming pimple. It was so painful to watch, everyone was ecstatic when Parallax finally put him out of his - and the audience's - misery. If he wasn't being extremely creepy, he was yelling. And that was all there was to it.
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  (#5) Jesse Eisenberg

  • Zombieland, The Social Network, Adventureland, Now You See Me, The Village, Rio, The Squid and the Whale, Cursed, Rio 2, The Emperor's Club, 30 Minutes or Less, To Rome with Love, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Roger Dodger, The Double, Holy Rollers, Free Samples, The Hunting Party, Solitary Man, Why Stop Now, Camp Hell, While We're Young, Night Moves, The Education of Charlie Banks, The Living Wake, Lightning: Fire from the Sky, He's Way More Famous Than You, Beyond All Boundaries, Addicted To Fame, Some Boys Don't Leave, One Day Like Rain, The End of the Tour, American Ultra

  Fans were, to put it lightly, doubtful about the idea of casting Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In the end, those doubts were justified.

  Eisenberg’s portrayal of Lex was all over the place. It seemed like he was suffering a psychosomatic identity crisis on set. His performance has been likened to being a cross between the Joker and just Eisenberg being himself. It was also hard to believe that this portrayal was the same brilliant, calculating mastermind that Luthor is renowned for in the comics. He left a piss-filled jar in the Senate, set up his super secret server room next to his kitchen (easily breached via RF switch), and just fidgeted and stuttered all about.
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  (#10) Colin Farrell

  • Minority Report, Daredevil, Horrible Bosses, Total Recall, In Bruges, Fright Night, Seven Psychopaths, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Crazy Heart, Saving Mr. Banks, Miami Vice, Alexander, The New World, Phone Booth, Epic, The Way Back, Veronica Guerin, American Outlaws, A Home at the End of the World, Intermission, The Recruit, S.W.A.T., London Boulevard, Tigerland, Hart's War, Winter's Tale, Cassandra's Dream, Dead Man Down, Pride and Glory, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Ondine, The War Zone, Miss Julie, Ask the Dust, Triage, Falling for a Dancer, Kicking It, We Are Ireland, The Disappearance of Finbar, Solace, The Lobster

  2003's Daredevil is, objectively, the worst film about a blind lawyer who fights crime ever made. Now, a lot of the blame falls on Ben "Wait, What Are Human Emotions Again?" Affleck, but Colin Farrell's turn as Bullseye is particularly onerous. His attempt to be menacing just come off as cartoonish, as if he's a doing an impression of what a leather jacket would be like if it could talk. 

  The thing is, Farrell gets a lot of undeserved criticism as an actor. When he gets the right material, like he did in the 2015 film The Lobster, he can really put in a stellar performance. Unfortunately, that was certainly not the case in this dumpster fire of a film. 
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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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  (#15) January Jones

  • X-Men: First Class, Love Actually, We Are Marshall, American Wedding, Anger Management, The Boat That Rocked, Bandits, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Seeking Justice, Unknown, The Glass House, Taboo, Full Frontal, Sweetwater, It's the Rage, Love's Enduring Promise, Swedish Auto

  Emma Frost is one of the most fascinating characters in Marvel comics. Sometimes she's good, sometimes she's bad, but she remains awesome throughout it all. Frost is highly intelligent, confident, and irresistibly charismatic. That's why it was such a disappointment to see January Jones basically act as lifeless eye candy in the X-Men film franchise. '

  Jones is a remarkably gifted actor, anyone who has watched Mad Men can attest to the wide emotional range in her command. Yet in X-Men: First Class, she was given little more to do than serve as an errand girl/honey pot for Kevin Bacon, and you can tell that she's not exactly putting her all into such lackluster writing. Having her killed off-screen in Days of Future Past was probably the best thing for everybody. 

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