10 of the best MF'n movies starring Samuel L. Jackson.

10. Coming to America (1988)

Sure, it's a tiny role - and one of Jackson's first - but given that this is one of the funniest films ever made, it gets special inclusion. Samuel's character tries to stick up the local neighborhood McDowell’s, and ends up getting his ass handed to him by Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and a broomstick.


9. SNAKES ON A PLANE (2006)

Despite the massive wave of pre-release hype, this Plane was bound to crash and burn. Jackson's obscenity-laden turn as Neville Flynn, a Federal agent trapped on a jumbo jet full of snakes, however, saved the film from complete obscurity, coining one of the low-brow phrases of the year.


8. THE INCREDIBLES (2004)

Jackson voiced the cooler-than-ice character Frozone, who plays a key role in helping the Incredibles take down evil robots and long-winded monologueing villains with more ice-related puns up his sleeve than should be legal. A standout performance in a great animated flick.


7. THE NEGOTIATOR (1998)

A wrongly-accused hostage negotiator becomes a hostage-taker himself as he tries to solve his own case before it's too late. Jackson's desperate intensity is magic when mixed with fellow negotiator Kevin Spacey, and the film is much better than it gets credit for.


6. STAR WARS: EPISODE I — THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)

It's a damn shame that the prequel trilogy was such a colossal disappointment, if only for the fact that there was so much promise for Jackson's purple-light-saber-wielding Mace Windu. Unfortunately for all of us, what we got instead of kick-ass Windu action was endless footage of Jar Jar Binks, lots and lots of talking and terribly one-dimensional performances by a certain Hayden Christiansen. Nevertheless, Jackson's Windu stands tall along the timeless characters he shares screen time with in the film.


5. DIE HARD: WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)

Jackson plays a hard-line New York shop owner who flips the script on the Lethal Weapon boys, bringing more "yippiekiyay" moments than John McClane himself while taking down the terrorists and making sure his kids grow up right in the Big Apple. Who the hell else could get away with a name like Zeus?


4. A TIME TO KILL (1996)

Jackson's passion ripples with righteous indignation as he portrays a father imprisoned for killing his daughter's rapists in this gripping John Grisham tale about the morality of justice. A gut-wrenching, heart-stopping performance from Sam Jack, easily one of his best.


3. UNBREAKABLE (2000)

As a comics-obsessed art dealer with a mysterious bone disease, Jackson's turn as villain Elijah Price was filled with eerie, jarring fury and intensity. Unfortunately, however, the rest of the pieces didn't fit, and Unbreakable fell flat in the end, much like most of M. Night Shyamalan's films.


2. JACKIE BROWN (1997)

Jackson is three shades of evil away from the Devil himself as Kangol-hat-wearing Ordell Robbie, a smooth-talking, ruthless arms dealer who plays the world like a chess game. As if we needed any more proof after Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown serves as further evidence that Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson belong together.


1. PULP FICTION (1994)

Jules Winnfield is the role that Jackson will be most remembered for. His delivery of a passage from the Book of Ezekiel before sending Brett to the Big Kahuna in the sky (evidently they don't speak English in What) was among the most fantastically awesome performances in the history of cinema. He stole our Big Kahuna burger, drank our tasty beverage, broke our concentration and demanded to know if we thought Marsellus Wallace looked like a bitch (we don't) - and that was just the introduction to a character that would earn Jackson his first Academy Award nomination (best supporting actor) and firmly establish the actor as one Bad Motherf*****.