10 Great Blockbusters Held Back By A Terrible Lead Performance

Populating a blockbuster adaptation of one of England's most legendary folk heroes with a largely American cast was already a strange creative direction for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves to take, but it just smacked of laziness that star Kevin Costner didn't even bother to even attempt any other accent than his signature drawl.

The movie was a huge hit that would go on to earn over $390m at the box office, although it unfortunately gifted the world with Bryan Adams' toe-curlingly awful ballad, but it largely succeeds in spite of the leading man's awful performance as the title character.

Without a doubt Prince of Thieves belongs to Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham, who almost single-handedly saves the entire movie from disaster as the scenery-devouring villain who blows everybody else away with one of the most gloriously over-the-top turns ever committed to the big screen.

Anytime the movie cuts from Rickman to Costner, it only reinforces how ill-equipped and out of his depth the latter was in trying to prove himself as a tights-wearing man of action.