10 Great Movie Ideas Let Down By Their Budget

Anything that had Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, attached to it post Thor: Ragnarok should have been printing dollar bills, right?

When he had been attached to a project about the real life recount of a group of soldiers who were sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11th attacks in 2001, fans felt that this could set Hemsworth up as a mature dramatic actor and were keen to see how he would get on in the flick.

With a fairly low budget of $35 million, many were expecting this story to be more focused on the people involved in the emotional and mental aftermath of such a catastrophic moment in history, rather than a retreading of the typical war in Afghanistan film.

Instead we got the latter and it looked as though that budget nudged director Nicolai Fuglsig into creating a plodding 130 minute slog that spent more time firing rocket launchers at his characters than actually trying to understand them.

The film didn't bomb by any means - earning $70.8 million - but it could have added another new dimension to Hemsworth and the war genre in general had it invested more cash into marketing a film that had some depth and meaning, rather than clearly injecting that money into extravagant set-pieces in the hope it could wrangle in some adrenaline junkies.