(The film should have stuck with him playing the stock market.) It’s never clear whether we should be laughing, crying, or waving a white flag. It’s the tale of an 11-year-old brainiac (Jaeden Lieberher) who lays a trap for a child abuser, all as a way to let the folks around him grieve. The four act out squabbling bits and pieces of what might be the lamest Indiana Jones sequel ever imagined.ĭid director Colin Trevorrow get fired off of “Star Wars: Episode IX” because of the scathing reviews that greeted his cloying and absurd boy-genius disease-of-the-week heart-tugger? That wasn’t the stated reason, yet it’s hard to shake the suspicion that this dud didn’t help his cause. A quartet of high schoolers get sucked into a video-game version of Jumanji, which means they’re stranded for two hours in a generic jungle, transformed, for no particular reason, into Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan. This year, the recycled-franchise-blockbuster system saved the worst for last. The movie unfolds in a kitchen-sink-of-the-absurd nether zone somewhere between sitcom and Samuel Beckett, as if staged by Guy Ritchie with a broken motor. Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson play father-and-son criminals who live in a makeshift domestic trailer camp, where every moment consists of flamboyant bickering nonsense. It’s a wackadoo drama that hardly anyone saw or cared about, yet this degree of in-your-face ineptitude simply can’t be allowed to go unrecognized. It might surprise you which 10 nearly broke their spirit. They can’t all be masterpieces, but do bad movies have to be so … demoralizing? Variety chief film critics Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge grapple with those cases in their combined list of the Worst Films of 2017. More often, though, it’s a terrible idea whose execution reveals just how threadbare the concept really was - and, by extension, the cynical and/or inept process that would greenlight such a movie to begin with. When a movie misfires, sometimes it’s simply a good idea gone wrong.
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