Worst2First: The Worst Films of 2015

Worst2First: The Worst Films of 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, there’s no abundance of terrible films that were released.  Trying to narrow them down to just ten was almost an impossibility, but I managed to do so.

If you don’t see a review of mine on this site, it means I haven’t seen it yet, so I can’t include it in my best OR worst of 2015, since I haven’t seen them yet.

So here are the ten worst films of 2015, Worst2First…

**There will be no spoilers.**

The Dishonorable Mentions:

The Lazarus Effect

-a movie about a group of scientists who manage to bring animals – and then humans – back to life.  Only God should be able to do this, as of course everything goes wrong.

http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-lazarus-effect.html

Get Hard

-Will Ferrell tries too hard, and Kevin Hart is highly overrated in this predictable comedy about a wealthy white man who is sentenced to prison, and hires a man based just on his ethnicity to teach him the ropes.  You can pretty much assume most of the jokes are racially centered and not that funny.

http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/06/get-hard.html

Child 44 

-I had high hopes for this Tom Hardy/Noomi Rapace thriller, but it seemed that the writers tried to include too much in a small timeframe, and didn’t know where to go with it.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/09/child-44.html

Everest

-disaster porn films like San Andreas get it right – don’t focus on a story, just have a lot of death and destruction.  Everest tries to tell a story along with the destruction, and ends up being a longer film than it should’ve.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/11/everest.html

American Ultra

 -Kristen Stewart tries.  She really does.  And Jesse Eisenberg is in his element about a stoner loser who is activated to being a killing machine.  Fell flat pretty much in every aspect.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/10/american-ultra.html

 

The Last Witch Hunter

-You just knew this would be a bomb when you tell a story about Vin Diesel being a centuries old warrior sent to rid the world of witches.  Cheap CGI, terrible story, and an all around mess.http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-last-witch-hunter.html

Now we’ve gotten to the top ten worst films of 2015…

#10

Poltergeist

An unnecessary remake of the Toby Hooper 1982 classic takes away the fear and terror the original had and replaced it with a muddied story about a family you could care less about.  Plus they took out the legendary Zelda Rubeinstein character and replaced her with a disgraced reality TV show host. 
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/11/poltergeist.html

#9

Tomorrowland

Disney manages to hit it out of the park more times than not, but “Tomorrowland” is one of those nots.  Even with George Clooney’s charm, the film couldn’t save itself from what it was – a fantastical CGI experience, but nothing else nearly as amazing. Between the dazzling futuristic set designs and stylized fighting, there was little to keep your attention.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/07/tomorrowland.html

#8

Hot Pursuit

A comedy featuring one of television’s most funniest females should’ve been an easy sell, but this Sofia Vergara-Reese Witherspoon pairing somehow managed to leave out all the laughs.  At least the two actresses seemed to have fun in the film, but the fun didn’t translate beyond the screen to the audience who were struggling to stay awake.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/10/hot-pursuit.html

#7

Fifty Shades of Grey

Smut films should be insulted a movie like this was made.  Not only was it terribly written (the author, after all, wrote the whole series on a Blackberry), but there was absolutely no chemistry between the two actors, the story was as dull and mundane as watching paint dry, and the caliber of acting had a lot to be desired.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/08/fifty-shades-of-grey.html

#6

Jupiter Ascending

When a film is delayed, they give several reasons why – they have to do some reshoots, they need to prepare it for 3D viewing, whatever.  In honesty, there’s only one reason – in hopes that it fades into the background of memory.  “Jupiter Ascending” was supposed to be a summer blockbuster for the directors who gave us “The Matrix,” but instead they moved it to the dead middle of February where they knew no one would see this mess.  And no one did.  It was a wannabe “Star Wars,” but failed to deliver in every aspect.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/07/jupiter-ascending.html

#5

Hitman: Agent 47

Once again, proof why a video game should not be made into a movie.  This color-by-numbers yawn puts most of its emphasis on the action sequences and dumbs down any type of story it could’ve told.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitman-agent-47.html

#4

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

First of all, it doesn’t take place in a mall.  It’s in a Vegas casino.  Second, the film came out six years after the first, which was a surprise hit.  Lightning didn’t strike twice for Kevin James, whose second outing – although six years in the making – seems to be done as quickly as a college student who realized he has a twenty page research paper due the next day, and it’s 11 pm the night before.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/07/paul-blart-mall-cop-2.html

#3

Pan

Peter Pan has had a terrible rep lately.  First there was that abysmal live musical on NBC where Christopher Walken tried to sing and dance, and then there’s this.  Once again, it was supposed to be released in the summer, but got pushed back to a time where very few people went to the movies.  Pan fails both as an origin story, and an action film, and reduces Hugh Jackman to try his best Jack Sparrow impersonation.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/10/pan.html

#2

Fantastic Four

I really wish Fox would just throw in the towel and admit that Marvel can do this better.  It’s been ten years since the original was released, and I figured nothing could make the first (or second) appear better, but somehow this trainwreck did just that.  Even the director wasn’t pleased with the final outcome, which seemed to splice two different movies into one, and somehow managed to make the whole thing terrible.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/09/fantastic-four.html

#1

Pixels

I was debating whether or not to put "Pixels" as my number two, but I decided to make it the worst film for the simple fact that it took all my favorite childhood video games like Pac-Man, Centipede and Donkey Kong and throw them into a blender, blended it with rat poison, and forced it down my throat.
http://joemamamoviereview.blogspot.com/2015/10/pixels.html



So there they are...the films of 2015 to avoid (or watch, if you're a fan of seeing films that are so bad they're good).

Stay tuned for my BEST films of 2015.