10 Most Polarising Movies Of 2017
8. David Brent: Life On The Road
The boldest thing Ricky Gervais could have done with his comic creation David Bent was leave him exactly where he was at the end of the last Office Christmas special, but for better or for worse, he brought him to the movies.
Life On The Road is as cringe-worthy as anything from Brent's days as the paper company boss from hell. Watching him touring his pop band to impending disaster was suitably excruciating viewing, and at times, Gervais did manage to channel the awkward magic of his seminal sitcom's heyday.
Some diehard Office fanatics lapped all of his up, but just as many argued that the show's ending was perfect and pointed out that further Brent adventures only compromised and diluted the Wernham Hogg era.
Life on the Road wasn't one for the neutrals either, many of whom felt 96 minutes with Brent was overkill, though nobody can deny there were a few good laughs in there.