15 Worst Movie Performances Of 2019
11. Keean Johnson - Alita: Battle Angel
When it was released, Alita: Battle Angel surprised the masses as a genuinely good magna adaptation, something that doesn't happen all too often. While Rosa Salazar herself took a lot of praise, along with the general aesthetics of the movie, her co-star Keean Johnson did not.
Johnson portrayed Hugo, Alita's love interest in the movie, but aside from boyish good looks, gave the audience no reason to believe the titular character would ever fall in love with him. There is a distinct lack of charm or real likability, and if the audience can't fall for a character, why should the movie's bad ass protagonist?
As one of the few actual human elements of the movie, next to robots and cyborgs, Johnson should have stood out and shone with personality almost by default, and you can certainly see why he was cast. Instead however, the young actor simply missed the mark, as his performance and impact on the movie rarely went deeper than being simply a generic teenage crush.