9 Distractingly Bad Performances In Otherwise Great Movies

9. Contagion: Jude Law - Alan Krumwiede

Contagion is a terrifying, dread-laced, realistic and exceptionally haunting look at the effects of a global pandemic that gets a huge lift from a great cast, Steven Soderbergh's precise direction, a fantastic score from Cliff Martinez and a smart script, but there's one person who really lets the side down and surprisingly enough that's Jude Law.

Jude Law is a talented actor and in his role as an amoral conspiracy theorist he does the mannerisms and expressions for the character just fine; it's his accent that's the problem.

Law does the character with a toe-curling, hideously awful Australian accent and this ruins the entire performance. Why didn't they just allow Law to use his native British accent? Why didn't they get an Australian actor? Who knows? Regardless, this is one of the worst fake accents in recent film history... in fact, maybe ever.