Tim Roth: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

And 5 Performances That Sucked...

5. Emil Blonsky - The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Why Tim Roth? That's the only logical thought really pertaining to his role in Marvel's The Incredible Hulk, a movie in which he plays Emil Blonsky, a soldier who finds himself injected with the same serum that rendered Bruce Banner as the Hulk, and ends up as the Abomination. First things first: Roth isn't so bad in this role that it does Tim Roth the actor a disservice. If anything, he just seems oddly miscast; Blonsky is a character who requires something of a physical presence, as well as an emotional one - you wonder why they picked Roth. Oddly, this is the sort of part that Roth should have thrived in, and yet you come away from The Incredible Hulk with no real lasting memory of Blonsky or of the Abomination. It's probably just a huge case of a good actor getting caught in the wrong part, and though Roth certainly delivers the inner turmoil factor associated with his character's transformation into a big, lumbering mess of a monster, he doesn't convince us all the way as a soldier. Which becomes even stranger when you learn that Roth himself suggested Blonsky were a soldier.