10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget

This po-faced high concept sci fi comes close to being something properly decent. It has a neat concept - suicide rates skyrocket after proof of the existence of an afterlife - and a solid cast including Robert Redford, Rooney Mara, and HIMYM’s Jason Segel. And then it all goes a little wrong.

The Netflix release lives in the shadows of far better modern sci fis like Midnight Special, and takes the worst cues possible from the genre’s current top dog Christopher Nolan - i.e a complete lack of humour and a seriousness that saps the fun out of the proceedings, without the necessary depth to make up for it.

This is a particularly damaging position for Segel to be in. He’s an actor of immense vulnerability, easily equipped for more serious movies, but he needs a little space to strut his stuff, and this production runs out of puff long after the concept loses its novelty.

He shares many of his scenes with Rooney Mara, and the two never quite seem to click on screen. It’s easy to see why the ambitious actor would pick a film so far out of his comfort zone, but the script does him no favours.