Every class has its share of risky movies , and 2024 was no elision . Not everything can turn out to be a great moving picture or even a good one . But there were so many frightful films this year that we could n’t even find a plaza forMegalopolison our inclination of seven … and that is one epically unsound movie !
Unsurprisingly , there are four amusing - book root on films on our leaning of the seven risky movies of 2024 . And this roundup would have been incomplete without them . But these superhero - side by side flick are n’t the only offenders that earned their place here . There ’s also an astonishingly awful Christmas action film , a soulless video game picture show , and an role player ’s vanity project that you may need to see for believe that it ’s real . But it ’s probably a better thought to avoid that one whole .
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7. Joker: Folie à Deux
Few films instance the watershed between audience expectation and the desire of the movie maker likeJoker : Folie à Deux . The firstJokerwas a monumental smasher , even though it was less of a comic - book film and more of a remaking ofThe mogul of Comedy . Director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix did n’t have any design of doing a sequel until they fell in honey with the mind of incorporating musical turn into the level of Arthur Fleck / Joker . Lady Gaga was subsequently cast as Harleen “ Lee ” Quinzel because of her telling abilities , and in retrospect , that may have been when the audience tuned out .
Fans would have probably preferred a story with majuscule nexus to Batman , but this variant of Joker was far from the Clown Prince of Crime we ’ve seen in former television shows or picture . Phoenix ’s Joker just was n’t criminal Einstein material , and his news report sic upthe moving picture ’s last bend , which mostly infuriated the fan who did come back for the sequel . There were definitely worse moving-picture show this year thanJoker : Folie à Deux , but onlya few that were more disappointing .
6. Red One
Take a looking atRed Oneand wonder in repugnance at the idea that someone not only consider this soulless Christmas legal action flick was a good theme , they also drop $ 250 million on it . Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson was once considered the top activity headliner in Hollywood , but he wo n’t hang on to that crown if he celebrate starring in turkeys like this one .
Johnson plays Callum Drift , the disillusioned psyche of security for Santa Claus ( J.K. Simmons ) at the North Pole . When Santa is kidnapped , Callum and his political boss , Zoe Harlow ( Lucy Liu ) , turn to Jack O’Malley ( Chris Evans ) , one of the best bounty hunter in the world . The film has plenty of Christmas trappings , but no clue about what the holiday is meant to mean . If ever there was an Amazon - produced movie that felt up like an Amazon Prime product , this is it . The only upside toRed Oneis that it was so soundly rejected in theaters that we may not be subjected to a continuation .
5. Kraven the Hunter
If you were surprised that aKraven the Hunterfilm change state out to be a bad idea , then you have n’t been paying attention to Sony ’s attempts to turn Spider - Man villains into picture show stars without using Spider - Man . That forces the movie to endeavor to make Kraven ( Aaron Taylor - Johnson ) into a appealing anti - bomber at the cost of any timber that would have made him interesting .
Former Best Actor Oscar - succeeder Russell Crowe really hams it up as Kraven ’s father , Nikolai Kravinoff , but this seems like a tumid step down after playing Superman ’s biological dad inMan of Steel . Or even from Crowe ’s embarrassingly bad cameo as Zeus inThor : Love and Thunder . The film play up the severance between Kraven and his half - crony , Dmitri Kravinoff ( Fred Hechinger ) , and their don . But at no point is anything in this movie convincing — especially not the inferior CGI creature or the ludicrous depiction of the Rhino ( Alessandro Nivola ) . It ’s not even a playfulness movie to hate — it ’s just tough .
4. Poolman
On some level , it ’s graspable why Chris Pine wanted to save , direct , and star in his own pic . peck of actors attempt to stretch their annexe into the creative side of the industriousness . regrettably , Pine wears his influence on his arm asPoolmanessentially rips off the main case of theCoen brothers‘The Big Lebowskiand drops him into the plot ofChinatown .
That may voice like a joke , but Darren Barrenman ( Pine ) is very clotheshorse - like , minus Jeff Bridges ’ humor and charisma . And Darren really does observe his room into a derivativeChinatown - similar water and country scandal . Pine distinctly loved those movies without comprehending how to duplicate the things that made them entertaining and memorable . Poolman‘s only saving grace is that so few people saw it in theaters that it might be quickly forgotten and buried .
3. Borderlands
A film has n’t hear this hard to beGuardians of the Galaxysince the firstSuicide Squadfilm in 2016 . ButBorderlandsfalls victim to the recurring theme on this list because of its inability to agnize or understand what made the motion-picture show that breathe in it work . How do you ware a plaster cast that includes Cate Blanchett , Kevin Hart , Jack Black , and Jamie Lee Curtis ? Director Eli Roth base a way of life , or perhaps the rap lie with Tim Miller ( Deadpool ) , who oversee the costly reshoots .
The Borderlands games are fun to flirt and they have more personality than any of the fiber in this film . In fact , anti - fun seems like the best description for theBorderlandsmovie . It ’s a joyless slog to watch and a monitor that just because you’re able to make a movie adaptation , it does n’t mean that you should .
2. The Crow
Speaking of things that should n’t have been made , The Crowis a prime example of that . There have been a few effort to remake the 1994 original moving-picture show , both on video and in some humble - budget sequel . But this is the one that may finally kill the dealership once and for all . Everything that was so hauntingly tragic about Brandon Lee ’s take on the character is lost with Bill Skarsgård ’s seemingly Juggalo - inspired personification of Eric Draven .
The Crowhas some unintended comedy when it halts in its rails to give Eric a love story with Shelley ( FKA Twigs ) just so he can feel the motive to issue forth back from the grave for retaliation when they both get murdered . The first pic get that gunpoint across without having a literally demonic baddie , Vincent Roeg ( Danny Huston ) , who send Shelley ’s soul to hell . And as intimidate as Skarsgård was as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Stephen King’sIt , he ’s not on the nose a military unit of nature as he embarks on his quest for retaliation . Director Rupert Sanders pulled off a near - impossible feat withThe line-shooting : He made hisGhost in the Shellmovie see good by equivalence .
1. Madame Web
We very nearly give-up the ghost withThe Crowfor No . 1 on this tilt , andBorderlandswas also a solid prospect to crest off the yr ’s worst celluloid . Both of those moving picture are abysmal , but they ’re also destined to be forgotten . No one is going to forgetMadame Web . This is a comic Quran picture that is so off - the - scales awful that it ’s extend to be commemorate in the same way that people still sing aboutHoward the Duckdecades later on . Outgoing Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra recentlydefendedMadame WebandKraven the Hunterby articulate “ the mechanical press decide that they did n’t want us making these films … and the critics just destroy them . ”
The fact that Vinciquerra ca n’t know thatMadame WebandKravenwere terrible pop off a retentive way toward explain why they are . Dakota Johnson ’s main fibre , Cassie Web , is so incredibly unlikable that not even the actress seems interested in her . We ’ve rarely realise such a exanimate performance in a leading role , but Johnson seems set to go through the motions even though Cassie is far from compelling .
Borderlandsmay not have made the most of its cast , butMadame Webgoes one step further by project a trio of rising stars — Sydney Sweeney , Isabela Merced , and Celeste O’Connor — all of whom had the potential to steal the movie out from under Johnson if they were given something meaningful to do . It says a wad about a film that the brief bit that Sweeney , Merced , and O’Connor are in costume as future Spider - Women are more exciting than anything else in the narration . But those are just tease thatMadame Webnever delivers on .
Madame Webcompounds its sins by barefacedly seek to link up itself as intimately to Spider - Man as possible by including Ben Parker ( Adam Scott ) as a supporting type and featuring the nativity of his famous nephew , Peter Parker , as well . The film ’s baddie , Ezekiel Sims ( Tahar Rahim ) , is the Spider - Man that you ’d order fromWishwith a costume from Spirit Halloween . Sony ’s hubris was on full show when it releasedMadame vane , and the studio cover to simulate muddiness over its failure . That ’s why it deserves the dubious honor of being named the worst moving-picture show of 2024 .
