10 Embarrassing Times Movie Actors Tried To Be Badass
1. Hayden Christensen - Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith
When the worst thing about your trilogy isn’t the CGI rasta-lizard, something’s gone terribly wrong. The most fascinating part of the Star Wars prequels should have been the evolution of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader, the most promising young Jedi descending into darkness.
Instead, we got one film with an annoying, precocious kiddy, and two of Hayden Christensen’s exercise in angst. He’s tedious in Attack Of The Clones, a petulant apprentice who’s supposed to be annoying, but simultaneously plenty cool.
He’s downright unbearable, though, in Revenge Of The Sith. The much-anticipated descent into evil is simply acres beyond Christensen’s reach as a performer at this stage in his career, and the laughable dialogue doesn’t help any.
Darth Vader is an iconic baddy for the ages, and the story of Anakin Skywalker should have given us some indication as to how he got there. In place of that, we’re given a stroppy teenager. James Earl Jones managed to create a fully fleshed character through heavy breathing and a baritone boom; Christensen doesn’t make an iota of the impact across nearly five hours of screen time.