10 Box Office Bombs You Could Spot From A Mile Away

The original Ben-Hur is best known for two things; the chariot race, and winning eleven Academy Awards. The 1959 classic (which was also a remake) or the name 'Ben-Hur' itself doesn't hold much cache with modern audiences, so why anybody thought a $100 million retelling with little in the way of star power was a sure thing is anyone's guess.

For a director who once held such promise, Timur Bekmambetov's movie is painfully dull and littered with poor acting, wooden dialogue, terrible editing and glaringly obvious greenscreen. For a remake of a Hollywood classic, 2016's Ben-Hur also has nothing new to add to the story and is painfully low on imagination.

Failing to even recoup its budget at the box office, Ben-Hur could only open in a painful sixth place at the domestic box office with $11.2 million, and dropped out of the top ten altogether in just two weeks. Labeled as the year's biggest box office disaster, Ben-Hur could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for the failing historical epic genre.