10 Action Movies That Looked Awesome But Sucked

Colin Farrell stands in for Arnold Schwarzenegger in this needless remake, and the filmmakers initially seem to have made the character a more credible Everyman than the Austrian Oak. But, as soon as he starts performing superhuman stunts, you have to wonder why they bothered.

Pursued by Kate Beckinsale, Farrell kills armed guards by the dozen, makes death defying leaps and gets involved in a high speed car chase, but there’s  so much digital trickery involved that it's never exciting. In fact, so much plot has been excised and replaced by blah chase scenes that you’ll find yourself nodding off after a while.

Disappointingly, the director is Len Wiseman, who made an auspicious debut with Underworld, followed it with the bigger and better Underworld: Evolution, then burst onto the A-list with Live Free Or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0, if you’re European). Total Recall has none of that movie’s verve or excitement (no free running Frenchman, either), and since we’ve literally seen it all before, done better, there’s no reason to bother with this boring failure.