Spider-Man Movies: 7 Perfect Performances & 7 That Sucked

By Simon Gallagher /

1. Paul Giamatti - Rhino

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Sometimes, you look at Paul Giamatti and you can't help but see the performative class oozing out of him. He's a wonderful, often understated character actor, capable of profound, relatable pathos. He's an everyman for outsiders and a great, entertaining watch in a lot of movies.

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He's also, however, the same actor who decided to take the role of this tracksuit wearing, Russian mob mook who wears a Transformers suit and has an accent like a CG Eastern European meerkat.

This is the absolute dregs of comic book movie performances and honestly, it's impossible to justify it from anyone, let alone an actor as gifted as Giamatti.

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And now on to the perfect ones...