20 Worst Movie Performances Of The Decade
7. Marlon Wayans As Christian Black - Fifty Shades Of Black
Fifty Shades of Black, the dreadful spoof of Fifty Shades of Grey, is more of the same for Marlon Wayans. He screams like a classroom of temper tantrum-throwing five year olds and delivers bad joke after bad joke after bad joke.
There's no self-awareness or nuance to his performance and he just does nothing but shriek and hope viewers will find it funny. Spoiler alert: they didn't. Frankly, this makes the highly unsatisfactory performances in Fifty Shades of Grey (a funnier film than this thanks to its unintentional hilarity, which is a pretty sad comment) look positively Oscar-worthy.
With Marlon Wayans, his schtick of over-the-top shrieking is positively tired after all these years and all these critical misfires. He is capable of doing solid work and he's excellent in his dramatic role in Requiem for a Dream, but sadly he generally takes on projects that fail to show his talents.