12 Worst Casting Decisions In Spider-Man Movies

12. Paul Giamatti As Rhino (Amazing Spider-Man 2)

Oh, Amazing Spider-Man 2, what did you do to poor Paul Giamatti?

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Forcing the star of such films as Cinderella Man, Sideways and American Splendor into a cheesy tracksuit and giving him bad tattoos and a robotic suit straight out of a Transformers salvage yard was never going to work, was it?

Giamatti has proven he's a talented actor a hundred times over, but he was so fundamentally wrong for the role of Aleksei Sytsevich (aka Rhino).

Maybe it's the terrible Russian accent, but his take on the long-time Spidey foe just comes across like a cartoon villain, and not even a good one at that.

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