20 Most Surprising Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2017
2. The Book Of Henry
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 21%
The Book of Henry was considered a potential awards contender until anyone actually saw it, considering the mere presence of Naomi Watts and Room's Jacob Tremblay, alongside its seemingly worthy, coming-of-age premise.
Then the film came out and was widely panned for its tonally mind-boggling narrative, litany of peculiar plot twists, and a clear disconnect between writer-director Colin Trevorrow's opinion of what's sweet and moving and, well, everyone else's.
The Book of Henry is one of the year's most infamous ambitious failures, to the extent that it's presumed to have resulted in Trevorrow being fired as the director of Star Wars Episode IX.
What seemed like it might be a feel-good classic instead ended up a so-bad-it's-good disasterpiece. Oh dear.