12 Awesome 2014 Performances In Otherwise Awful Movies

11. Charles Dance - Dracula Untold

The Movie: Despite plenty of potential, the first film in the new Universal Monsters franchise gets the series off to a limp start, with the talented Luke Evans being forced through the motions in a dull mess of lame action and incoherent plotting. The Performance: Charles Dance plays the Master Vampire, the one who turns Vlad (Evans) into a vampire in the first place. Kitted out in heavy make-up and spending the majority of his screen time mugging from a dark, dirty cave, he hams it up for the cheap seats and the results are easily the movie's most entertaining moments. Dance's role is pretty much solely just to spout exposition and explain the plot, but he totally looks the part, and was surely a much better choice for the role than Charlie Cox, who is 36 years his junior and originally filmed the scenes before being replaced with Dance. Dance also gets one hilariously memorable scene at the end of the movie, set in the present day, where he stalks Vlad and declares, "Let the games begin." Dance's delicious delivery of every syllable of dialogue makes the movie much more tolerable.