1. Dr. Adam Stanton - All The Kings Men (2006)
Columbia PicturesWe suspect that many of you havent seen 2006s All the Kings Men despite its boasting the unified acting heft of Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, Jude Law, James Gandolfini, Anthony Hopkins and Mark Ruffalo. It was also based on the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and was previously adapted in the Robert Rossen directed film which picked up both the Best Picture and Best Actor Oscars at the 1949 awards. If you expected the aforementioned Safe Men to be a success, youd anticipate that 2006's All the Kings Men would be one of the classics of the noughties. However, the film flopped massively. It was overly sentimentalised, far too pompous and wildly unfocused, making for a woeful viewing experience. Even acting alongside greats of the industry like Penn, Hopkins and Winslet wasnt enough to inspire Ruffalo to deliver a great performance as everybody else was as overdone as his character Dr. Adam Stanton. The script is overwrought and tedious throughout and this very much transfers over into Marks performance. If you can make it through this two-and-a-bit hour, pretentious, stodgy melodrama without drifting off to sleep then your attention span is far better than ours.