Top 10 Worst Movies Of 2018
It’s Time to Honor the Absolute Worst Movies Of 2018…
When you’re a film critic bad movies come with the territory, but some flicks are so bad that they take a little piece of your soul with them. Since it’s the end of the year, I decided to look back through my reviews to put together a list of the worst movies of 2018. Like my list of the best movies of 2018, I decided to list these films in the order they were released and not bad to worst. The end result is a collection of movies that tested my very resolve as a critic and made me want to hang up my trusty notebook more than once. I managed to persevere through though and now I get a chance to tear these movies apart one last time. This list includes some of the most hated Hollywood cliches from bad horror movies to romanticized toxic relationships to dreaded remakes. There’s a little something in here to get everyone’s blood boiling. So, take a few deep breathes, because the worst movies of 2018 are coming right at you!
Proud Mary
January is a notorious time of year at the movies since Hollywood releases all the garbage they know can’t compete with Awards season or summer blockbusters. Proud Mary was one of the first truly painful films of 2018 because, in all honesty, it actually looked like a semi-decent movie. While I was hoping for the black, female version of John Wick what I got was a neo-blaxploitation film (just take a look at the poster) right down to the shallow story and cliched dialogue. The end result is exactly what you might expect from a bunch of white guys trying to write a movie about a strong, black woman. Thankfully, the film didn’t include the word “jive” being thrown around, but it might as well have. Proud Mary could have been so good, but instead its one of the worst movies of 2018.
Fifty Shades Freed
The only good thing about Fifty Shades Freed is that we might be in the clear of terrible romance franchises for a while. The best selling erotic novels, inspired by Twilight fan fiction took bored housewives by storm and made a mockery of the BDSM community with its infantile understanding of the roles that doms and subs play in
Death Wish
I’ve been known to defend remakes from time to time. However, Death Wish is not only one of the worst movies of 2018 but is also one of the worst remakes of all time. I’ll admit that I’ve never really been a big fan of Eli Roth’s gore-centric approach to filmmaking (though I was pleasantly surprised by The House with a Clock in Its Walls), but I respect him for trying to break away from the horror genre. However, Death Wish is an atrocious film that preaches the idea that any old white guy with a gun should take justice into their own hands. Bear in mind that most gun owners who think they can dispense swift justice during a crisis struggle to get a phone out of their pocket before it finishes ringing. Death Wish was easily one of the most tone-deaf films of the year and one that left me filled with anger at its very existence.
The Hurricane Heist
What blows my mind is that someone pitched this idea for a movie and Hollywood threw money at it. Producers took a look at a script that featured a storm chaser stopping highly trained mercenaries in the middle of a robbery during a hurricane and said: “Audiences will love this!” Well, it turns out that audiences did not love The Hurricane Heist. In fact, the film managed to make just over $6 million at the box office, which was less than 1/7th the budget. Now, I’m not above admitting that most of the great natural disaster movies out there aren’t what one might call traditionally good movies, but The Hurricane Heist was in a whole other circle of hell from them. It’s as though someone thought “hey, what if we remade Hard Rain, only dumber?” Lo and behold that’s exactly what we got from this stinker of a movie.
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
2018 had a lot of ups and downs when it came to my feelings towards Blumhouse. On the one hand, they gave us great films like BlacKkKlansman and Upgrade. On the other, we got Truth or Dare. I was expecting a twisted take on the classic game where a spirit forced players to complete tasks more twisted and deranged than the last. What I got was a film with characters that looked like they were randomly possessed by a Snapchat filter. Worst of all, at no point, did any of the people playing the game try to think their way out of any problems. These dumb dumbs didn’t stop to think how they could twist the words of the spirit to get away with dares safely. Not that it really mattered because every character in the film was so dislikeable that by the end I was rooting for the evil spirit to kill them all.