10 Best Bad Movies Since 2000

Attention global warming deniers: by 2019, our weather will be so out of control that Gerard Butler establishes a system of satellites to control the global climate. This works so well that after a few tornado-free months, everyone goes back to their first world problems and a Senate subcommittee fires Butler for saving the world with government authorization (or something).

Three years later, looney tunes Vice President Ed Harris hijacks the system and uses it to launch a series of “pre-emptive strikes” on other countries, causing earthquakes in Hong Kong, tidal waves in Rio De Janeiro etc. His real target is the President, who he plans to kill with a superstorm during a speech in Orlando. Who’s gonna stop him? Dr Butler and his fists.

Cue an enjoyably deranged movie with all the ambition and complexity of the kind of nonsense Cannon Films was churning out in the 1980s. Characterization is on the level of a Saturday morning cartoon, the effects look like they were created for a movie on SyFy and the film’s logic is best described as “primitive”, but it’s all so entertainingly bad that you’re just swept along.

Best of all is Harris’ motivation for destroying the planet: “I’m making America great again!”