7. Chris Tucker as Beaumont Livingston (Jackie Brown)
Some think Jackie Brown Tarantino's greatest movie, the one where he lessened the style, upped the warmth and invested his characters with some actual depth. Whatever your opinion on this, the film certainly features one of QT's most grisly death scenes, as loveable Chris Tucker grows to trust psychopathic shitbag Samuel L. Jackson, only for Jackson to put him down with a pair of well-placed bullets. The character of Beaumont is really only there to give us a clue as to how ruthless Ordell Robbie (Jackson) is, but Tucker still manages to make Livingston into a living, breathing human being in just five short minutes. Naive, foolish, a little bit annoying and a lot stupid, there's a sense of tragedy when Robbie coldly shuts Beaumont up, the eerie silence that follows his execution a world away from the comedy violence we're used to in a Tarantino movie.