10 Respected Actors Who Completely Hammed It Up To Play Flamboyant Villains

5. Al Pacino As John Milton/Satan - The Devil's Advocate

HOO-AH. Nobody chews scenery like shouty, post-80s Al Pacino. And if you want proof of that, let your journey begin and end at The Devil's Advocate, the morality play and supernatural thriller in which Al doesn't so much read dialogue out loud as bark it directly into your quivering eardrums. Described by QNetwork as "a randy, flamboyant trickster", Pacino's portrayal of Satan in The Devil's Advocate is hilarious. The film's not a comedy, but that doesn't matter €“ going one louder than his turn as Detective Vincent Hanna in Michael Mann's Heat ("GIMME ALL YA GOT"), Pacino's devil is so way, way over the top that the top never realised any actor could get so high. Pacino dances, he yells, he brags that he slept with Keanu Reeves' wife, and it's done at such a pace that poor Reeves can't quite seem to keep up. It's a performance wholly at odds with the reputation Pacino built for himself early in his career. But with quiet, contemplative 70s Pacino already dead, The Devil's Advocate marks the exact moment where Shouty Al finally takes over, and it's that guy that's been with us ever since. No other Pacino character, however, has ever been quite this explosive.