10 Redeeming Elements In Otherwise Awful Movies

Okay, perhaps this is a bit of a cheat, but if there's any actress currently working who deserves extra credit for elevating her material it is Eva Green. While she has had her fair share of successes in film - Casino Royale and Ridley Scott's thoroughly underrated Kingdom of Heaven both spring to mind - much of her mainstream work is in rather awful films. After all, this is the actress who appeared in not one, but TWO sequels to overrated Frank Miller adaptations in the same year...

Let's break those down, actually. 300: Rise of an Empire and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For are both extremely forgettable (to put it generously), and neither of which could be considered a success critically or financially (to put it even more generously). However, both of these films reveal that Eva Green has a massive talent for show-stopping villainous roles. In 300, she commands every scene she's in, and winds up being the single most compelling presence in the film, and in Sin City, she manages to turn the act of performing a cliché femme fatale role into an art form.

Throughout her filmography, she continues to excel, even if the directing and script do not have her back. See also: The Golden Compass, Dark Shadows, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. For an actress often only cast for her looks, her commitment to her performance is what makes her more than just a pretty face.