20 Shamefully Bad Movies From Brilliant Actors

18. Showtime - Robert De Niro

Pain And Gain
Warner Bros.

One of the greatest actors of all time and one of the most popular comedians of all time in a buddy cop movie, what could go wrong?

Well, everything.

Murphy made his name in the movies doing the buddy cop genre, but this is another kind of awful and the start of Robert De Niro's descent into mediocrity. The only positive of that being it never really got worse than Showtime.

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