10 Actors Who Need Saving From Bad Movie Choices

10. Johnny Depp

How Johnny Depp is still so in-demand in Hollywood is a mystery that would push Hercule Poirot to his very limits.

Some of the actor's career choices are even more bizarre than his personal life, and this is a man who handed over several million dollars for the right to fire Hunter S Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon.

Since Pirates of the Caribbean propelled him from stardom to mega stardom, high-profile missteps such as Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, Transcendence, Mortdecai and Alice Through the Looking Glass are starting to dominate Depp's IMDB page.

Even his last two outings as the rum-glugging Jack Sparrow failed to float the critics' boat, which suggests returning to the series was a poor call that only diluted a great franchise, and revisiting Alice was a similarly bad decision.

Despite the star's good-to-bad-film ratio swinging heavily in the wrong direction of late, he's inexplicably managed to land a key role in the Harry Potter series as well as Universal's Dark Universe, although based on the start the latter got off to with The Mummy, another Depp turkey could be on the way.

Depp seems to have the monopoly on the audacious, camp, larger-than-life character, but with Jack Sparrow's charm fading with every instalment, there's only so many more Mortdecais the actor can make before he stops landing these roles.

He's always been one of Hollywood's leading risk-takers, but at this point in his career, it's time to be more discerning.