10 Most Overrated Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

10. The Nice Guys

The Nice Guys received a lot of praise this year for being a fun, frantic yarn featuring an affable duo - played by Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe - and more banter than you can shake an Ocean's Eleven film at. And it is sort of all those things, sort of, except not at all close to standard you'd expect from Shane Black, the man who wrote Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, those genre-busting classics.

That's not to say that The Nice Guy isn't entertaining for much of its runtime, but there are issues at its core that the majority of movie-goers and critics seem to have ignored - deep, fundamental issues that expose it as a work of relentless self-plagiarism. Because this feels like Shane Black reprising the beats of his other, better films without any need to do so. It has its moments, but it only half works: jokes fall flat, the plot is incomprehensible, potentially great characters are wasted...

Gosling and Crowe don't quite gel in the way that the trailers would have you believe, either, which is a shame - they're an odd couple, sure, but not quite memorable and their sense of buddy chemistry doesn't really come together.

When it's all over, it's as if the movie has ended prematurely - like we've made it through act two, with act three is set follow. That isn't the case, and so the only suitable reaction to The Nice Guys is actually something close to: "Disappointing, that."