GREAT actors in bad movies?

[Lost in Trek]

Ben Kingsley in practically anything after 'Gandhi'.

What, like "Schindler's List" and "Dave"?

 

[steveo]

I don't blame the actor as much as I would blame the director and editor. The director needs to pull the correct performance from the actor and the editor needs to chose the right take plus cut them together flawlessly.

A bad actor can be made to appear great depending on the director and editor.

 

[Probe Droid]

Tim Roth in POTA
Michael Cane in On Deadly Ground.
John Goodman and Christina Ricci in Speed Racer
Everybody in Cape Fear. Scorsese's worst film.

 

[jarvis]

Johnny Depp in just about everything he's been in for the past decade.