10 Movie Flops You've Probably Forgotten

James Patterson’s FBI agent turned psychologist returned to the big screen in this would-be thriller, and to the amusement of bad movie fans everywhere he was no longer played by Morgan Freeman but – drumroll, please – Tyler Perry, the star of Diary Of A Mad Black Woman.

It’s the kind of hokey, predictable cops-versus-psycho-killer tosh you’d expect from Patterson, but for such a high-profile effort, with such a large built-in audience, it’s all rather anonymous and forgettable.

The director is Rob Cohen, of The Fast And The Furious and XXX fame, but you won’t be reminded of his previous work even though bad guy Matthew Fox gets to go nutso with a grenade launcher, blowing up buildings and sending flaming bodies flying through the air. The staging and effects aren’t much better than in a CSI episode (circa 2000), nobody’s trying too hard and the whole groaning mess plods along as indifferently as a training video.

Good Night, Alex Cross.