10 Most Forgettable Superhero Movies Since 2000

After the disastrous The Last Stand, here was a movie that couldn’t fail: director Gavin Hood was one of Variety’s “10 Director’s To Watch”, screenwriter David Benioff later co-created Game Of Thrones and the cast included Danny Huston, Liev Schreiber and Ryan Reynolds. What could go wrong?

The short answer seems to be “everything.” Greenlit without a completed script, principal photography commenced on one continent while the screenplay was being fine-tuned on another. Add to that the conflict between Hood (who was aiming for a dark, R-rated movie) and Twentieth Century Fox (who wanted a PG-13 film) and you have a troubled production that was never going to yield great things.

In this play-it-safe version, Wolverine becomes a caricatured tortured soul tormented by the death of his lover (cue an unintentionally funny overhead shot of him cradling her body) but it’s Deadpool’s character who best sums up the movie. Instead of a faithful approach to the source material, the final cut plays more like a Frankenstein hybrid assembled by committee.