10 Best Performances In 2018's Worst Movies

2. Taraji P. Henson (Proud Mary)

Proud Mary had easy potential to be a fun throwback to the blaxploitation genre of yore, yet the end result was a poorly directed, narratively slapdash mess that took itself too seriously and ended up an absolute slog despite being sub-90 minutes long.

The single saving grace, then, was a perfectly-cast Taraji P. Henson in the role of a**-kicking protagonist Mary Goodwin.

Henson also produced the film so clearly believed fully in the vision, as further evidenced by the conviction of her turn as an assassin who is forced to care for a teenage boy (Jahi Di'Allo Winston).

Henson does about as well as anyone could here: she rips through the hackneyed dialogue with her trademark acid-tongue, she looks both sexy and tough in her leather jacket get-up, and she mows down hordes of bad guys with guns.

She makes an admirable effort to shape Mary into an actual character, but Henson's also the only aspect of this movie that's really trying at all.