20 Greatest Performances In Superhero Movies
16. Alfred Molina - Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Alfred Molina gives by far the best performance of any Spider-Man movie villain to date, nailing the sympathetic mad scientist aspect of the character and also the physically imposing nature of a man at the mercy of his own technology.
The script does a good job making Doc Ock a nuanced, multi-faceted villain with understandable motives, but it's Molina's exemplary work that takes the character to the next level, vacillating between sensitive, aggressive and, finally, tragically heroic.
He's not an easy character to adapt to the big-screen, but Molina was a smart, unconventional choice for such a seemingly absurd creation, and remains a high-point of Marvel movie baddies.