1. Brad Pitt - Mickey O'Neil
The final entry on this list is unique - in that it was a brilliant bit of casting even though we never understood a single word they spoke in the entire film. Im talking, of course, about Brad Pitt in Guy Ritchies magnum opus, Snatch. For those whove been living in a bin for the past 12 years, Brad Pitt played a gypsy who just so happened to be a bare-knuckle champion fighter and he spoke an unintelligible mush of English and Irish. Now at this time, Brad was still viewed as a good looking hunk of meat and not much else. Women were boring men to tears with giggle-filled talk of his role in Meet Joe Black, men hated (yet secretly admired) his looks and style in Fight Club, and critics were dismissing him as a serious actor. Did he do Snatch for the accolade? Which is the only reason why any A-list actor treads the boards in Londons West End, by the way. Who knows? All we know is that Guy wanted him for some Stateside appeal and that Pitt knocked it out of the park. It was the first film of his I watched without thinking,
thats Brad Pitt. I just saw Mickey, the wiry Pikey who lives in a caravan and sparks out guys the size of bulldozers with just one punch. Considering Snatch had dialogue sharper than a roomful of razor blades and the plot was more twisty-turny than a twisty-turny thing, it takes some doing to be the stand-out performer in every scene you're in - yet Brad did it. Dodgy tats n' all.