Ranking All 22 Major Summer 2016 Blockbusters From Worst To Best

22. Ben-Hur

Here's a stunning revelation for some of you out there: just because a film is old, does not mean it is suddenly somehow bad. The passage of time does not rob classics like Ben-Hur of their lustre. Nor does it mean anyone should be compelled to spunk $100m unnecessarily remaking them (with a self-protecting, cowardly "reinvention" tag slapped on at the last minute).

The new Ben-Hur's awfulness is just as inevitable as you'd suspect, and fatally, even the production values are p*ss-poor, with terrible, giddy editing and sloppy CGI work. Even the chariot race - the one thing they should have got right - was mediocre.

One of the chief problems lay in casting Jack Huston, whose Ben-Hur is simply not interesting: he has neither the charisma nor the gravitas to pull off the role and he's invariably outdone by Toby Kebbell's villain. The latter, incidentally, needs to fire his agent.

Imagine how much better this could have been if Tom Hiddleston had been cast as was initially planned. Actually, even then it would probably have just been terrible with an actor who absolutely should have known better...