Every 2016 Comic Book Movie Ranked Worst To Best
15. Term Life
It is never, ever a good sign for your film when the most notable - and most distracting - thing about it is the state of your leading man's hair. It's an issue that has blighted Nic Cage and John Travolta over the past decade and you can now add Vince Vaughn to that list.
Vaughn legitimately has the potential to be a great actor (he has shown as much in flashes), but he also has way too much capacity to be almost provocatively unwatchable. He's very much the latter in this adaptation of A.J. Lieberman's graphic novel by A Christmas Story star Peter Billingsley, which absolutely should have been left unadapted.
It was obvious it wasn't going to be any good - it was quietly released to VOD two years after filming ended, with no critics invited to see it prior to release, and if you've heard of it at all, you're probably in a minority. It's a shame, as the graphic is great, but the material simply does not translate here and is bogged down horribly by cliches and rote dialogue. And at no point does it become so bad it's enjoyable.