Jack Nicholson: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

1. Harry Bliss - Man Trouble

So here it is: the worst performance of Jack Nicholson's career, and a genuinely bad one, no matter which way you look at it. So awful was his turn in Man Trouble, in fact, that the Oscar-winning legend was nominated for a Razzie. As in, an actual Razzie.

Here's the plot: Nicholson stars as Harry Bliss, a security expert who is married to a Japanese woman and finds himself not really loving that situation at all. Then Ellen Barkin turns up and asks him if he'll help her in locating a dog and... seriously, what is this sh*it? And this was a film that happened in 1992, somehow.

Directed by Bob Rafelson, who collaborated brilliantly with Jack Nicholson on Five Easy Pieces (yes, you read that right), Man Trouble is a genuine curiosity that doesn't know what genre movie it wants to be. Nicholson coasts on a performance that literally asks you to remember him as little as possible; the plot is so bizarre that it'll have you scratching your head just from reading the blurb on the DVD cover.

What's more, the dog is the most memorable aspect of the film. Think on that for a second. Nicholson didn't win his Razzie, but he probably deserved to.

Which of these performances do you think rank of Nicholson's best and worst? Let us know in the comments section below.