That red smoke from the Vatican chimney can mean only one thing: We have a winner — winners, actually — in our Hottest Performance in Worst Movie contest. As Scanner Sarah noted earlier today, Milla Jovovich was an early favorite for her work in the Resident Evil series, where she manages to look smashing in nearly every zombie-slash-exposition-laden scene. But we couldn't pull the trigger on Milla because, let's face it, Resident Evil ain't all that bad. You got guns, guts, ghouls... Plenty of stuff other than Milla to distract you from the shabby filmmaking. And we're not looking for someone who simply looks great in the middle of TBS-level mediocrity here; we're looking for performances of such boner-inducing appeal that they make us sit through two hours of pure, uncut awfulness.
Which means that the winners, by some distance, are Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas in the 2001 erotic period piece (yeesh!) Original Sin.
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