10 Recent Movies That Let You Down INSTANTLY

10. Captain America: Brave New World

After all the pre-release hand-wringing over poor test screenings and seemingly never-ending reshoots, Captain America: Brave New World desperately needed to come swinging out of the gate with a statement of intent to prove the nay-sayers wrong.

But the superhero sequel instead kicked off in thunderously dull fashion, bringing audiences up to speed with a recast Thunderbolt Ross - Harrison Ford taking over from the late William Hurt - while listlessly recounting the narrative of 2008's The Incredible Hulk.

And even once we shift to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) taking on Sidewinder's (Giancarlo Esposito) goons in Mexico, the action feels clunkily edited, slow, and just generally low-energy - hardly what anyone wants from a Captain America movie.

The first 10 minutes-or-so made it incredibly easy to believe that Brave New World had indeed been put through the post-production mangle, and that Marvel had struggled to wring much fun or interesting out of it in the process. 

The rest of the film hardly dissuaded much from that notion, either.