Jon Hamm: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

And 5 Performances That Sucked€

5. Tom Adkins Sr - Stolen

Before Mad Men blew up properly and he started being able to pick and choose his roles, Jon Hamm didn't have the luxury of being quite so selective. Which probably explains why a lot of pre-cable-stardom filmography is a little less impressive than the movies and TV shows where he got to show off his chops. One of these less impressive performances turned up in Stolen, a 2009 indie drama which currently holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Which means that not a single person in the world has given it a good review. Which doesn't really bode well, right? Even if you don't trust critics generally, that's a warning sign. Not even Armond White gave Stolen a positive write up. Now that's damning.

Jon Hamm even gets the starring role as Tom Adkins, a small-town cop investigating two cold cases a fifty-year-old homicide of a small boy who mummified remains are found in a construction site, and the disappearance of his own son eight years before the film starts. Could they be connected? Well, like, obviously, or else there'd be no point in both cases unfolding concurrently. That would just be silly. Not to mention bad screenwriting. Adkins starts to go a little nutty, what with being reminded of his grief and discovering the striking similarities between his life and that of the mummy boy and his father. Hamm does his best but it's the weak script that lets him down, with pedestrian plot twists and perfunctory dialogue.