1. Tom Hardy As Shinzon (Star Trek: Nemesis)
Criticizing Tom Hardy is an act that some regard as a capital offense, especially since his turn as Bane in the less than mediocre, Dark Knight Rises. While it's clear the man can act, his portrayal of Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis is not as spectacular as he might have hoped, and the main reason is that Shinzon suffers from a severe case of bad writingitis. Star Trek: Nemesis was one of the final nails in the coffin that killed the franchise (temporarily). Before the film was released, producer Rick Berman sold Nemesis as the best Star Trek film since the last time he said that, but he also put the focus on Shinzon by saying that he will be up there with Khan. Suffice to say, Shinzon was nothing like Khan, in-fact he was nowhere close. It also put a lot of unnecessary pressure on Hardy. Shinzon was a clone of Captain Picard and the product of a plan by the Romulans to infiltrate Starfleet. So naturally you would expect him to have a serious issue with the Romulans for creating him and abusing him, but for some reason he seems far more interested in destroying Earth. Being a copy of Picard, but growing up as a slave to the Romulans, it should have made an interesting dynamic between the two. It should have made a point about how circumstances can shape a person, how circumstances can mean the difference between a person growing up to be good or bad. However, he degenerated into a fairly standard villain where his outfit was far more entertaining than anything he was doing. The scenes where we are supposed to fell sorry for Shinzon, Hardy tries to show his vulnerable side but his manner, voice and rather dull demeanor do more to drag the film to a snail's pace, than give it layers. Even the scenes where Hardy and Patrick Stewart do verbal sword fighting are dull and the fault lies more with Tom Hardy and the script. Shatner V Montalban this was not. The problem with Nemesis was that the film tried to be The Wrath Of Khan and tried to make Shinzon fit the Khan mould. That is what hurt Star Trek: Nemesis and it set a bar for (the then unknown) Tom Hardy that he could not reach.