10 Actors Who Hopefully Killed Their Careers In 2015

By Jack Pooley /

8. Kevin James

In fairness, Kevin James could have appeared in an article like this for pretty much the last decade: his last critically-acclaimed starring movie was 2005's Hitch, and ever since it's been a relentless spate of terrible "comedies" which largely try to milk how many different ways the actor can fall on his a**. James generally keeps himself to just one or two movies per year to avoid infuriating audiences too much, though 2015 saw him take things to the next level: he appeared in the widely poo-pooed Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (5%), took a supporting part in forgettable drama Little Boy (21%), played the President of the United States in Adam Sandler's Pixels (17%), and voiced Frankenstein in the bland Hotel Transylvania 2 (52%). James only has one film in the pipeline right now, The True Memoirs of an International Assassin, directed by Kick-Ass 2's Jeff Wadlow and written by Jeff Morris, who wrote last year's outrageously bad Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever, so not exactly a ringing endorsement, then. Hopefully he'll keep a low presence on the cinematic radar for now until the inevitable Grown Ups 3 comes around...