10 Directors Who Have Never Made A Good Movie

10. Brett Ratner

Brett-Ratner-600x300 Filmography: Money Talks, Rush Hour, Family Man, Rush Hour 2, Red Dragon, After the Sunset, X-Men: The Last Stand, New York, I Love You, Tower Heist The Rush Hour movies were never funny. They were a waste of Jackie Chan's martial arts skill and Chris Tucker's comic ability, which is better put to use in David O. Russell's masterful Silver Linings Playbook. Ratner makes Tucker the most annoying man on the planet with his standard direction that does nobody any favours. Ratner is all style over substance, except his films have no visual flair and he continues to waste the mega budgets Hollywood studios hand him. Ratner got his break directing Mariah Carey music videos - and as if being associated with Mariah Carey wasn't bad enough he took it upon himself to make the worst Hannibal and X-Men films. His very hands-off approach has gotten him significant criticism and rightly so - his movies are bad. They're badly made and like so many others on this list - lazy. Despite never being the biggest X-Men fan in the world, I liked the first two Bryan Singer movies and was anticipating the third part after the stunning conclusion of X2. Ratner directed the third part after Singer left for Superman Returns (which was dismal) and left the film without any heart or emotion. It was just a great big ball of shoddy special effects and Vinnie Jones one-liners. After X-Men ended in disaster, he went back to Rush Hour for its third instalment which was dour, crude and redundant - even fans of the first two Rush Hour films thought it was bad. Being a bad director is one thing - and Ratner very clearly is - but being a horrible person is another - his homophobic slur and pathetic remarks about Olivia Munn lost him the job of producing the 84th Academy Awards. His ego and reprehensible personality somehow makes him more unlikeable than his movies.
 
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