Martin Freeman: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

5. Ali G in Da House (2002)

I find it very hard to be critical of the man, so I'll blame this on the fact that the 87-minute film is too long. 84-minutes too long to be precise. Ali G worked a treat as a character on The 11 O'Clock Show, almost making the prospect of Iain Lee and Daisy Donovan watchable (almost). But the movie version stretched the joke so far it became that most awful of things - boring. Freeman features heavily as 'Me mate Dave', a white boy gangster cartoon replete with bright yellow baseball cap, dungarees and comedy faux-patois. Like the whole concept, it's funny as a sketch but beyond that it simply grates and does that rare thing - it makes you hunger for less.