5. Vin Diesel - Find Me Guilty (2006)
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The Pacifier.
Babylon A.D. Vin Diesels CV reads like someone intentionally tried to sink his career before it even started. Diesels brand of unsubtle, dull-headed acting also seems like a calculated attempt to win him a Razzie for Worst Actor.
Find Me Guilty is an exception to the rule. If someone is going to make something of Vin Diesels avalanche-inducing voice and muscular presence, it may as well be Sidney Lumet: the director makes Diesel electrifying in that most tedious of genres, the courtroom drama. Not that
Find Me Guilty is tedious, or that youd expect Lumet to turn out anything dull its just that Diesel is the best thing in it. Like all great Lumet actors, Diesel is simply a joy to watch, clearly relishing the part of jocular gangster Jackie DiNorscio, with
Find Me Guilty always at its best when he's centre stage. Its a role free of vanity, as Diesel plays DiNorscio as overweight, aged and something of a joke. DiNorscio has his own set of idiosyncrasies and Diesel uses them to hilarious effect (Oh my God, I gotta have my chair; I cant SLEEP without my chair), moreso than in any of his comedies.