12. Pay The Ghost
A horror movie starring the well-renowned Nicholas Cage, as a Professor who is in search of his abducted son. This movie has very inconsistent pacing, as it can have some really slow scenes and then promptly jumps into a hastily thrown-together death scene of a character.
It also lacks an intense atmosphere, which is a very key factor for a good horror movie.
11. Unfinished Business
Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, and Tom Wilkinson are the only three employees in their small company so they go to Germany to close an important deal. That’s pretty much it. Not much goes on beyond the initial synopsis.
The jokes are very lazy and you feel lost in the movie from the get-go, as not many scenes have any set-up to them and start and even end abruptly.
10. The Lazarus Effect
A bunch of medical students discovers a way to bring dead patients back to life. Despite the well-done creepy imagery, the movie just falls apart as it goes on.
You start to question how and why the main characters can perform certain actions in the film and no reason is given for anything. The scares are also very clichéd and don’t even make you flinch.
9. Mortdecai
For the billionth time in his career, Johnny Depp plays another whacky eccentric cartoonish character, as the lead of this film. An overly complicated plot, in which people are in search of treasure, with a weird and comical atmosphere.
The film also ends up feeling unfocused throughout except for maybe in the last act, when things start to click. However, by then it feels like it’s too late.
8. Hitman: Agent 47
A video game adaptation about a genetically engineered assassin called Agent 47. Aside from the main character, nothing in this movie works at all.
The dialogue is awkward, the story feels nonsensical, the side female character was confusing, and just an awful adaptation of a largely compelling video game series.
7. Home Sweet Hell
A very dark and almost horror movie at times, even though it was supposed to be more of a dark comedy. A man is very successful but once his wife realizes his affair with a saleswoman, she takes action to keep her perfect life intact.
The film feels very awkward as it tries to make you laugh, but just ends up scaring you.
6. Hot Pursuit
A very generic female-driven road trip comedy. The two female leads have zero chemistry together which makes a lot of scenes awkward between them.
The comedy in this film was so awful that there wasn’t even a single chuckle-worthy moment on screen.
5. The Gallows
A found footage horror film about some kids in school who resurrect an old play in respect of a tragedy that happened 20 years ago. This leads to some scary events to occur.
The characters were unlikable, the story was nothing special, there’s no tension in any of the scenes as we only get lazy jump scares and there isn’t even a proper musical score to accompany it.
4. The Boy Next Door
Jennifer Lopez plays a teacher who was cheated on by her husband and falls in love with a young student. The transitions in this movie were especially bad as they failed to let you know how much time had passed between each scene.
This causes a whole of confusion at times, as you don’t know when and how the characters did certain things. The acting was one-dimensional and the love story felt incredibly forced.
3. Fantastic Four
This might possibly be the most baffling superhero movie ever put to screen. Initially, it felt like it had everything going for it; critically acclaimed director of Chronicle, Josh Trank; a fresh and previously proven cast of Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, and Kate Mara; and the trailers looked decent enough.
Nevertheless, this film was extremely dull, unfocused, choppy, misdirected, and overall just no fun for anybody. Moreover, I can’t think of any demographic that would even slightly enjoy this film.
2. Accidental Love
A waitress goes crazy because of a nail lodged in her head, which causes her to meet an ignorant senator that helps her cause. There is no plausibility for anything that goes down in this movie.
Nothing makes sense, there’s no chemistry between our lead characters, and it lacks a certain charm that an unconventional movie like this needs.
1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
This was one of those sequels that nobody asked for, nobody wanted to see, and a perfect candidate for one of the worst movies of all time. The vulgar attempts at slapstick comedy feel mean-spirited as there’s a point in the movie where our heroic main character punches an old lady for some stupid reason.
What’s worse is that the entire movie is just an advertisement for the wind resort, where the movie takes place. The product placement is as bad as it’s ever been in these Happy Madison films.
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