Best: Hunger (2009) Despite how easy it would have been to turn Bobby Sands into a faultless martyr, the complexity and the success of Steve McQueen's haunting IRA biopic lies in the fact that it avoids romanticism. Watching Fassbender's performance as Sands is like enduring an exposed nerve; it is an ordeal, completely authentic and as validating as it is haunting and as important as it is disturbing. Worst: Jonah Hex (2010) On reflection, the idea that anyone of any significant talent (or brain power) would sign on to the comically disastrous Jonah Hex seems laughable, but to give Fassbender some credit, this was during the naive, arrogant period where we all thought all comic book movies were golden. Luckily, garbage like this proved that there did need to be some restraint in the genre.
