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Created: 11/05/2009 1:18 PM KSTC45.com | 
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By: ReelzChannel Staff
Top 10 Least-Believable Casting Choices
When we got word that Resident Evil star and L'Oréal cosmetics model Milla Jovovich was starring as Dr. Abigail Tyler, a cerebral psychiatrist, in The Fourth Kind, we were, like, "Huh?" It then got us thinking about our favorite least-believable roles, some that require even more suspension of disbelief.
10. Mark Wahlberg as Vincent Papale in Invincible
No, the least-believable football player in movie history is not Adam Sandler as quarterback Paul Crewe in 2005's The Longest Yard remake. Vincent Papale was 6' 2", 195 lbs. when he played football for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976-78, the oldest rookie to ever play in the NFL without college experience. Mark Wahlberg is just 5' 6", and in every Invincible football scene he looked like a waterboy in shoulder pads.
9. Julia Roberts as a hooker in Pretty Woman
If you haven't noticed, the prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard look more like Divine Brown than a woman who's made People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" 11 times. Remarkably, there was still one thing even less believable than Julia Roberts playing a hooker: Pretty Woman's plot.
8. Ben Affleck as Anything in Anything
There was fierce internal debate about whether Ben Affleck was less believable as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Daredevil or as Ned Alleyn in Shakespeare in Love. Then it hit us: Ben Affleck isn't believable in anything. Except, of course, as a smarmy-grinned actor who's fooled Hollywood into making him into A-list talent. Now there's a movie we'd like to see.
7. Drew Barrymore as Angel Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
When it comes to the action-inclined Charlie's Angels, we can see Cameron Diaz kicking ass. We can see Lucy Liu kicking ass and taking names. But we can't see Drew Barrymore delivering a roundhouse kick to the face even if she owned a successful chain of karate schools.
6. Orlando Bloom as a crusader in Kingdom of Heaven (or anything requiring testosterone)
Those 12th-century Christian crusaders were pretty badass. Orlando Bloom isn't. Didn't this occur to the Kingdom of Heaven crew? Bloom's low-testosterone flow worked well when cast as the wimp Paris in Troy and even better when he played an elf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Bloom as an actual crusader? That would've prevented the Crusades.