9 Distractingly Bad Performances In Otherwise Great Movies

The late Peter Fonda had a long, prosperous career and will be remembered as one of the great counter-cultural icons of the 1960s (largely thanks to his role in Easy Rider) but of course all actors have their off days and they sometimes come along in places you wouldn't expect to see them i.e. great movies like this one.

The Limey is a superb, hard-hitting revenge thriller from Steven Soderbergh that has an outstanding lead performance from Terrence Stamp and features some of the most unique, interesting editing ever committed to film, but unfortunately Fonda is very weak as the film's rich, sleazy American villain.

It seems obvious why he was cast: they wanted to have Stamp, a British icon of the 1960s, face off against an American icon of the 1960s but Fonda evidently wasn't quite the right choice. He fails to bring any real menace or nastiness to the character and just seems like a laid-back, rather bored rich man and not like a villain at all.