10 Actors Who RUINED Movies In A Single Scene
6. Russel Crowe Swears By The Stars - Les Miserables
Russel Crowe clearly loves a good sing song. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with belting out one of your faves in a packed out pub or grabbing a guitar and strumming out a tune on a talk show.
What was less forgivable was the call to have him attempt his own version of the iconic Stars number during 2012's all-star big-screen adaptation of Les Misérables.
During the moments that required the Oscar-winning sensation to clash with Hugh Jackman's Jean Valjean as Inspector Javert, Crowe actually doesn't get enough credit for smashing it in the Tom Hooper epic - that gripping Confrontation exchange is a thing of beauty.
The same cannot be said for a song so horribly bad, though, it pretty much undid all of the exceptional work the likes of Crowe, Jackman, Anne Hathaway and co. had unleashed leading up to it.
As Javert looks up to the heavens above, Crowe drones out a lifeless and flat rendition of the emotional tune that resembles your drunk mate trying to convince the rest of the room he could have been a West End superstar.
And after watching him squeeze out a deeply underwhelming solo, it's rather difficult to take the flick's big bad, and the film in general, seriously from there on out.