7. Ruby Rhod - Chris Tucker (The Fifth Element)
Why They Derailed The Movie: Excessively Shrieky Performance Ruins Ears Granted, some people don't mind Chris Tucker's increasingly grating and almost awesomely loud performance in Luc Besson's otherwise great sci-fi movie
The Fifth Element, but a recent revisit to this flick ensured me that those people must be hard of hearing - Chris Tucker legitimately threatens to overturn the picture at almost every point he's on-screen, until eventually exactly that just happens, and your brain feels like it's ratting around inside a cage whereby touching the sides of said cage result in a random Chris Tucker quote blaring out. Don't get me wrong: I actually like Chris Tucker, and have enjoyed him many a time going at it with Jackie Chan in the
Rush Hour movies (well, the first two). But for some reason here he's never anything but irritating, (it's the shrieking!), emphasising absolutely everything that's wrong with the idea of letting this actor of the chain. And trust me when I say that he's been let of the chain in
The Fifth Element, for reasons that I cannot even begin to explain. The movie barely survives his inclusion, but remains great if you can zone him out.