10 Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were In Crap Films

3. Mark Wahlberg - Transformers: Age Of Extinction

When his contract ended on the Transformers franchise Shia LaBeouf ran as fast as he could. Sure he bolted straight into the heavy traffic of Twitter plagiarism, but that's probably than having stammer his way through another clanging entry in the Michael Bay series. Transformers: Age Of Extinction is just as bad as the other films, but manages brings some new elements of awful to the table; while the first three featured convoluted and poorly thought out plots, the fourth film dispenses with story all together, committing that common blockbuster sin of leaving everything open for a sequel. At least some of the actors seem to be in on the joke; Stanley Tucci has an absolute ball playing an up-to-eleven CEO. You'd think any actor getting involved in a franchise so widely derided must know they're not in it for anything more than the pay cheque. Not Mark Wahlberg. All that bull Bay spouted around release about how the film was going to try and do something new, bringing a legitimacy to the series clearly worked on Marky Mark, who from pre-release interviews was not only hopeful about the movie itself, but happy to praise Bay's film-making prowess. He may be a good actor who, in the right context, can pull off brilliant things (see The f**king Departed), but boy does he pick some stinkers.