13 Crucial Death Scenes Ruined By Terrible Acting

1. Sofia Coppola Was A Last Minute Replacement (And It Shows) - The Godfather Part III

The Scene: Outside the opera house, Mary (Sofia Coppola) tries to confront her father Michael (Al Pacino) about making Vincent (Andy Garcia) break up with her, but Mosca (disguised as a priest) soon enough opens fire on him. Mary gets caught in the crossfire, falls to her knees with a bullet wound in her chest, and utters the single word, "Dad!?" quizzically before slumping to the floor, much to Michael's horror. Why It Sucks: Say what you will about the third Godfather movie, but Mary's death is undeniably one of the most important and devastating events in the entire saga. Sadly, Winona Ryder fell ill shortly before filming began, and so Francis Ford Coppola employed his own daughter as a replacement, in one of cinema's greatest failures of nepotism. Coppola's line readings are awful throughout this scene, from "Why are you doing this to me?", to "You don't have to do this to me, please", and of course, the widely-mocked, "Dad!?", complete with a hilariously cartoonish fall to the floor. Granted, Pacino and Diane Keaton (as Mary's mother) just about manage to keep the scene from being an absolute train wreck, but there are arguably no more important scenes derailed by dreadful acting as well as the director's own short-sightedness. Which movie death scenes do you feel were most ruined by terrible acting? Shout it out in the comments!