5. Idris Elba - Daddy's Little Girls
From the man who brought you
Diary of a Mad Black Woman comes this, the creepily named
Daddy's Little Girls - which might well have been a mediocre paperback thriller you pick up at an airport about a father who turns out to be a serial killer - but is in actuality another awful, awful movie from that hack who calls himself Tyler Perry. And although the movie - about a solicitor who falls in love with a mechanic - does feature his intolerable Madea character this time around, it's still an awkward and horribly-realised slice of filmmaking. Except for its lead performance, that is, courtesy of one Idris Elba, who - off the back of
The Wire - presumably signed on to star in this piece of trash when he had nothing else to do. Elba's performance here is genuinely excellent - sympathetic, likeable, focused... everything that the rest of
Daddy's Little Girls isn't. As Monty, a mechanic with money worries, he brings heart to the entire picture, which might come as surprise if you've ever seen him as the cold and calculating villain Stringer Bell.
Such a competent performance trapped in such hacky work. For shame!