10 Bafflingly High 2015 IMDb Scores You Won't Believe
2. The Intern
The Score: 7.4/10 What It Should Be: 5.5/10 Who was The Intern made for, exactly? Your mum, perhaps? Or your mum and her friends, maybe, after they've finished a day of shopping and one of them says, "Oh, fancy a film?" and it's this. This is what they opt to see, because they think "Anne Hathaway is good" and at least half of them used to fancy Robert De Niro. Does that sound about right? The pairing of Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in Nancy Meyer's drama-comedy was unexpected, but who knew a film could be so overwhelmingly generic? This movie, which sees De Niro's easy-going life veteran as an intern at a company run by Anne Hathaway's highly-strung career women, is so sentimental and so grating and so plainly "fine." Benign is the word that springs to mind, in all honesty. It's like somebody set out to make the most benign movie ever, and this was the result. 7.4 for a movie that is so inoffensive and predictable, built from the bones of other, better movies? Are you kidding, IMDb?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.