12 Awesome 2014 Performances In Otherwise Awful Movies

6. Samuel L. Jackson - RoboCop

The Movie: A needless and underwhelming remake of the classically ultra-violent 80s action flick, 2014's RoboCop suffers with its PG-13 treatment, so-so action sequences and limp satire. The Performance: Even so, Samuel L. Jackson is easily the best thing about the movie as Pat Novak, a hyper-Conservative TV news personality who supports the introduction of robotic law enforcement and opens the movie by asking, "Why is America so robophobic?" Kitted out in a ridiculous hair-do and constantly depicted against American flags, his character is the closest the movie gets to actual intelligence, and it allows Jackson to be as famously angry, shouty and even a little sweary (albeit censored) as he wants. Though the movie squandered most of its cast, at least it gave Jackson easily the most entertaining part in the whole production.