Rating the Post 1973 Brando Movies

Brando released 12 pictures after Last Tango in Paris (1973) all of them supporting roles. Anyone looking for Brando  "The Great Actor" will be disappointed.   Three of the twelve movies are extended cameos. In the remaining nine films, we have:

• two with serious acting
• one SF/horror film
• one political movie
• one Western
• one Heist movie
• and three Comedies 

Here are the two movies with serious acting:  In Apocalypse Now,  he's simply awful and earned bad critical reviews. And Dry White Season won Brando an AA nomination for a 15 minute, two scene standard lawyer role.  Looked at from another angle, three of the nine are stinkers, four are forgettable, and only two  are good/very good. None are Excellent.

Its a sorry record, and covers the last 30 years of Brando's life.  But -as he said publicly- Brando only acted for $$$ or to push his left-wing politics. And he succeeded in making as much money as possible with the least amount of effort.  To make these 12 movies Brando didn't spend - in total - more than 12 months on set and made at least $100 million . And he never had to lose weight. He could be chubby or a 280 lbs land-whale and still rake in the cash.

I've ranked the movies as follows:

Very Good
Apocalypse Now (1979) - But Brando is awful. The worst thing in the movie

Good
Superman (1978) - *
The Score (2001) - A generic role. Brando performance unremarkable.

Average
Missouri Breaks (1976) - Some interesting acting in a dull part.
Dry White Season (1989)  - A Generic  Lawyer Role. Undeserving of an AA nomination
The Freshman (1990) -  A comic Godfather
Don Juan Demarco (1994) - Average in every respect.

Below Average
The Formula (1980) - An effective performance but little acting required .
Columbus (1992) - *

The Worst
Island of Dr Moreau (1995) - Brando does comedy - Unintentionally
Running Brave (1997) - *
Free Money (1998) - An awful performance in a bad comedy.

* = Brando's role is so small - no  comment is necessary.