10 Recent Movies That Wasted INCREDIBLE Casts
These movies had HUGELY overqualified casts.
Even accepting that star power has never mattered less to audiences than it does right now, it's still tough to deny the base appeal of a stacked roster of beloved actors.
If nothing else, it indicates that the script had something to lure in so much killer talent, or if you want to be more cynical about it, everyone got a fat payday.
Either way, while it's always great to see massive ensemble casts used in creative and unexpected ways, it's sadly far too common for filmmakers to squander the talents of performers who are clearly deserving of so, so much more.
And that's, unfortunately, the case with these 10 recent movies, each of which touted stellar casts that could be lovingly boasted about on all the marketing materials, only for the actors in question to be failed by lacklustre writing.
The majority of these performers were sadly given little of interest to do, ensuring that audiences en masse felt short-changed by the promise of seeing so many skilled actors riff off one another.
The lesson here? Great actors are just one part of the equation - without a solid script, it doesn't really mean much at all...
10. Argylle
Matthew Vaughn's Argylle certainly didn't leave audiences wanting for a star-studded cast, for all of its deficiencies elsewhere, the bases were positively stacked.
The spy action-comedy counts among its roster Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Delaney, Richard E. Grant, and Sofia Boutella.
And yet, despite having such acting firepower behind it, Argylle is a convoluted, frustrating mess of a film - at once frantic and shockingly boring, hurtling through a shoddy sub-Kingsman spy romp while leading to one of the most predictable plot twists of the year.
It didn't help, of course, that large swaths of the cast appear for just a few scenes a-piece, especially Henry Cavill, despite him receiving prime placement in the movie's marketing.
For a film with two Oscar winners (Rockwell, DeBose) and three nominees (Cranston, Grant, Jackson) to its name, what a lousy outcome.