10 Worst Performances In Awesome 2017 Movies

10. Dane DeHaan – Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets got a lot of hate in 2017, but we’re here to put the naysayers right – Luc Besson’s surreal space opera was miles better than most would have you think. It actually has a lot of things going for it: it’s visually stunning, it’s fun in a pulpy kind of way and it’s a quintessentially Luc Besson movie.

Dane DeHaan’s performance as Major Valerian, however, is not one of those things. We assume he’s attempting to channel the ‘lovable rogue with a heart of gold’ vibe of characters like Han Solo but whereas Harrison Ford had the charisma and presence to pull that off, DeHaan unfortunately does not. Instead of a swaggering, braggadocious anti-hero he comes off more as an angsty teenager.

Maybe it’s because DeHaan is used to being the darling of the indie movie scene and feels more at home in the kind of dramatic roles that brings because in this big budget would-be blockbuster, it seems his heart just isn’t in it.