8. William Fichtner's Performance - Drive Angry
Why It Sucked: What should have been an uproariously outrageous homage to classic B-movies was instead an oddly uninvolving, even boring farce that never got the blood pumping or the funny bone tickling.
The Overlooked Positive: It's a film easy to dismiss on the basis that it's just another step in Nicolas Cage's plan to stave off bankruptcy, but there's one element that the movie gets 100% right, and that's William Fichtner's superb casting as The Accountant, an agent of Satan who has come to earth to bring Milton (Cage) back to Hell. Fichtner is everything a character like that needs to be; he evokes a sure air of cool, but is also savagely violent when the time calls for it. As if we didn't already know it, this cemented Fichtner as one of cinema's premiere badass character actors, who can fit into such a brilliant variety of roles. It's just a shame that the movie wasn't more tailored to his character, who was far more interesting than Cage's.