3. Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li. Speaking of poorly executed films, here is another one for you. The story makes no sense, the acting is atrocious, and the fights are nearly non-existent. I should have known better going in, but I went anyway.
4. The Unborn. I wanted to like this movie. The trailer suggests a film that would have genuine scares and a plot that offers actual menace. The final film looks fine, but the tale is not all that interesting, and borderline nonsensical. Better luck next time. Ghostly kids, expository characters, exorcisms, Nazi experiments, disappearing twins, creepy kids, it all adds up to a whole lot of nothing.
5. Fighting. As stories go, there is nothing particularly special, fresh, or new to be found here. There is really not that much to hold onto. Everything is just really mediocre and often boring. The performances are alright but the actors have very little to do. For a film saddled with the unfortunate title of Fighting, there was not nearly enough of it and what there was, was not terribly skilled. It is generally a rather weak film that will fade, disappear, and be forgotten in rather short order.
There are good movies, bad movies and then there are movies filled with potential that fail to deliver the goods. Here are a few of those.
Disappointing 5:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Sure, the source material was a half-hour toy commercial from the 1980s, but there is still story potential there. They did a great job of realizing the robots in a live action setting, but the story is so poor. They put in all of these comedic bits that are poorly realized and do not belong. If they actually stopped for a minute and thought about a good story this franchise could have become one of the best ever
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ever since X2, this franchise has entered a free fall. How could they mess up the most popular mutant of all? Easy — make a boring movie. Throw a bunch of characters at the screen, make a few funny quips, slap some CGI on there and hope for the best. This feels like a movie made by a studio rather than any actual creative talent.
Terminator Salvation. This is the best of the films in this section because it at least tries. The film is littered with good ideas; unfortunately nothing ties them together in any cohesive fashion. The action and effects are fantastic and a couple of the performances are compelling, but oh how I wish the screenplay was better.
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