10 Actors Who Just Gave Their Worst Ever Movie Performances

Brian Petsos' black comedy Big Gold Brick at least gets a few points for being really, really weird, and for amassing an oddly distinguished cast that includes Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen, and Oscar Isaac.

Isaac appears in a single, seven-minute scene as murderous kingpin Anselm, rocking a sharp suit and decidedly less-sharp accent that can best be described as "European-adjacent" - practise for his dodgy English twang in Moon Knight, perhaps?

While it's fair to say that Isaac is being an intentional ham throughout his brief role, his work here has rather desperate "I'm doing a friend a favour" energy, and that's most likely the truth, given that Isaac is good pals with filmmaker Petsos, having previously collaborated on two short films.

In addition to his cameo - which he most likely did for free or SAG scale at most - Isaac is also an executive producer on the film, evidently hoping that his sheer presence would lend more credibility and profile to the low-fi project.

Yet given the thorough panning the film received from critics, the consensus is that Isaac's involvement didn't help much.

As fun as the idea of Isaac playing a disfigured, eccentric gangster is on paper, by way of the empty-headed script he isn't given much to do, and settles for disappointingly unfunny mugging with a silly voice for the most part.