10 Comic Book Movies Everyone Loves To Hate
9. Nick Fury: Agent Of Shield
Mounted on a budget of about nine dollars and aimed at people who aren’t allowed sharp objects, this TV movie casts David Hasselhoff in the title role, presumably because Leslie Nielsen was off doing other things.
Bringing the same gravitas to the character that he brought to Michael Knight and Mitch Buchannon, The Hoff is brought out of retirement to fight Hydra, who are planning to destroy America with a virus. Fortunately, the villains are incredibly easy to spot: they’re a bunch of Canadian TV actors putting on hilariously fake Russian accents.
Nick Fury: Agent Of Shield was released in the same year as Blade and Dark City, and it’s hard to believe that all three were written by David Goyer, the man who’s done more than any other screenwriter to bring superheroes into the 21st Century. One can only assume his ambitions for the movie were thwarted by a TV budget and a lack of faith in the genre.