Ben Kingsley: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

1. Kagan (BloodRayne)

Kagan Video games have a bad relationship with movie adaptations: The Prince of Persia, Doom, Super Mario Bros. (just to name a handful) all turned out terribly. None of these horrors are quite as downright embarrassing as Uwe Boll's BloodRayne, though, a movie which - for some reason - Ben Kingsley agreed to act in. He's the villain here, a man named Kagan, and this is absolutely the lowest point of his career. The fact that Kingsley is reading lines from a script penned by Boll doesn't help matters, but Kingsley looks so out of place and so confused by his own presence in the film, it makes for some truly shocking viewing. Most of his dialogue is just screamed, and for much of the movie the man is just confined to sitting on a throne. This is a phoned-in performance of the highest order. Why did he do it, though? Was he bored? Was it an experiment? If so, it really didn't pay off. At all. The only explanation that can be mustered is that Kingsley didn't know who Uwe Boll was, and signed up on a whim. By isn't that what agents are for? Fire yours, Ben.
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