2. Richard Haywood - Murder By Numbers
Okay, perhaps it's Sandra Bullock that is to blame for the horribleness of this film, but the fact that Gosling had anything to do with it makes me love him just a bit less. All in all, this was just a really bad movie: you know the type, the Lifetime movies that somehow made it into theaters, with the "strong" female lead, that really just ends up being a cliche and uninteresting protagonist. It's a murder thriller that loses all grasp of tension, and wanders all-too aimlessly through it's 118 minute running time with very little success, despite a fairly strong concept (a little like Scream, if I'm honest.) Two years after his first "major" film role in Remember The Titans, Gosling is very rough around the edges - he does offer something of the ladies' man charm that would later serve him so well in Crazy, Stupid, Love, but the film is too pedestrian and too poorly written to really take advantage of that, and a potentially engaging sociopathic villain is all too easily forgotten. A missed opportunity all round.