Did you walk out of a film feeling angry, disappointed, baffled, confused?
Did you walk out of a film for that matter?
Did you sit in your car (or at home) reeling? Questioning, debating, pondering how on Earth it even got through the pitching process?
Then, welcome.
I think I’ve already compiled my worst films of 2015 which doesn’t bode well for the year that lies ahead.
BUT let’s (finally) review the worst films of 2014!
My criteria; Basically films that destroyed all excitement and anticipation or failed to deliver anything (Acting, talent, story, suspense . . . a movie).
Films that made me cry a little, scream with RAGE or just say, “I don’t think I’m going to bother anymore” . . . With the cinema (Woah, let’s not get too down now).
So for a change, let’s start from 20 – 11, followed by PART TWO with 10 – 1
SCALE: 20 DISAPPOINTED! – 1 WTF!
I’ll stick a few comments with each crappy film title accordingly. Enjoy . . . OR NOT. In fact, you won’t with these đŚ
20. TAMMY
Melissa McCarthy failed on every platform. An interesting story line? Nah. Good characters? Well, Susan Sarandon wasn’t bad. Jokes? Bar the fast food restaurant robbery, zilch.
I like McCarthy. IÂ normally find her hilarious BUT she tried to deliver the same old loud mouthed, slobby monster with a heart spiel and it failed to keep me intrigued, interested or laughing (The ultimate crime of all).
Thoroughly disappointed. It was that flat, I have no energy to make any other comment. Check my review if you like.
19. LUCY
How the hell this stayed at Number 1 in the UK for so long baffled me more than the finale?!
A racy opening had high hopes with the alluring ScarJo kicking ass and taking names whilst gaining higher intelligence. Check, check, check. I was ticking all the boxes.
BUT the endless scientific mumbo jumbo and ridiculous CGI kicked all tension, pace and fun out of this bonkers flick.
Not even the smooth dulcet tones of Morgan Freeman could save the day.
His character really had no idea what to do and was completely pointless and the finale?
WTF? I haven’t felt that confused and annoyed since I watched The Matrix Revolutions.
18. THE DEVIL’S KNOT
If not for the two (normally) talented leads, this would have been nothing more than a TV movie that you’d expect to see late at night on Sky Atlantic’s twilight scheduling.
A harrowing opening showed promise BUT what we got was an overlong court yarn that was never really resolved.
A harsh twist BUT in terms of film viewing . . . DISAPPOINTING!
The constant repetition of the same old facts and the endless witness testimonies just numbed me into a little coma.
It just didn’t go anywhere in terms of suspense, performance or story. It felt like one of those American crime docudramas that are on the Crime Network all the time.
The only person who might come out unscathed was the legendary Colin Firth. He did his best and delivered a sterling Southern accent BUT it didn’t hide the fact his character was quite dull.
17. OCULUS
That image above was my face coming out of the cinema after seeing this.
Karen Gillian and Brenton Thwaites did their best BUT Oculus was such a slow and tedious affair.
Evil mirrors? Really. Just lock it away if it can’t be broken. Job done.
The constant flashbacks coinciding with the present just mirrored (Ba-dum-tssh) what the pair were doing.
When it did finally get going, it got a little more watchable. BUT it just ended. Quite abruptly and SO predictably.
If I wasn’t so bored by the end, I would have been wild with rage. Meh.
16. HORNS
Hell hath no fury like a horny Harry?
I wish. It was terrible. Radcliffe does his best to keep this watchable BUT the story is so weak and uninteresting that even when the weird stuff does kick in.
And it does. I could feel the Devil taking away my patience and interest.
It took an hour before anything of worth really happened. And the whodunnit was so obvious, I was saying out loud. It’s that person. Right there!
All we got was a sulky HP moping around some woods while people told him their darkest secrets.
Things get interesting for one moment when HP finally goes dark . . . BUT then he goes back to skulking around. Even with those ginormous devil horns and super devil powers? Lame.
And the ending was laughable. From the people who made this.
Haha. You sat through this. Infuriating, boring and just plain awful.
15. OUIJA
This poster freaked me out more than the film.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. I wish they could have used the Ouija board to summon up something better than this.
Predictable, naff and unoriginal. This managed to make Long Time Dead a horror classic by comparison. And that was pretty shit.
Don’t get me wrong, there were a couple of jumpy bits. BUT it was hard not to when the music was so damn loud.
The scares reeked of desperation. The only shock I got was that this wasn’t filmed in a shaky handheld found footage format.
14. GODZILLA
God help the sequel. How did this make money?
The film is called Godzilla. So why did we have a 90 minutes of giant moth mutants trying to get jiggy?!
The iconic monster only really surfacing for 15 minutes. Mindless exposition with bland characters. Aaron “Airhead” Taylor Johnson as the lead character.
I did my rant a long time ago. I can’t do this again.
BUT please watch this incredibly accurate Honest Trailer clip of Godzilla. It’s perfect. Unlike this monstrosity!
13. ROBOCOP
I wouldn’t buy this for a dollar.
A completely unnecessary remake. Making this a 12A didn’t help matters.
There could have been an opportunity to poke fun at the social media, the iPhone. Anything that hadn’t been covered in the 1987 original. BUT no!
We got the same old guff. Just less violent, less satirical and . . . I forget my point.
Joel Kinnaman was terribly mechanical. Before he even donned the Robo get up.
Not even Samuel L Jackson could save the day. In fact he made it worse. I think he was trying to do his best (or worst) Ron Burgundy impression. Either way, it didn’t work.
Dead or alive, I wouldn’t bother watching this.
12. I, FRANKENSTEIN
I can’t believe I sat through this.
If it wasn’t so laughable, I would have walked out.
It didn’t help that the cast, especially Aaron Eckhart, took it so seriously when the premise was so ridiculous and far fetched.
This could have been a fun B-movie mickey take BUT it was just a droll, cringe worthy disaster.
The 15 minute gargoyle battle in the closing half kept me quiet for that duration BUT it was hard to be that interested when you had no idea who was fighting.
Plus the characters were that unmemorable that you couldn’t give a monkey’s.
11. MRS BROWN’S BOYS D’MOVIE
What da feck?
Now, I will admit. I am a fan. BUT O’Carroll really did take the biscuit.
Slapping any old thing together for a quick buck.
Applying the studio audience sitcom format to a movie? No, no, no!
The impromptu outtake in between the story line didn’t work and felt disjointed.
BUT the main issue is that it just wasn’t funny! I sighed, I fidgeted.
For a moment, I thought I was watching a foreign film without subtitles because everyone else was laughing.
For shame, Mrs Brown. Naff plot, naff characters and naff jokes makes this viewer one MAD RANTER.
The MAD MOVIE RANTER 
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