10 Movies From 2016 That Really Shouldn’t Have Been Boring

You have to give Gods Of Egypt one thing; it’s different. No other film in 2016 featured Geoffrey Rush as a sun-god locked in eternal battle with a planet eating demon, or CGI God creatures sword fighting across Egypt. While the film had to weather accusations of whitewashing, the biggest problem it faced was the overload of negative reviews that greeted it on release.

A unifying theme of these notices is amazement that - in spite of the sheer wackiness it contained - it was still an utter chore. That’s because, despite the hyperactive coating, the character drama is spectacularly uninvolving. The various romantic subplots are a waste of precious life, the protagonist learns the most basic of lessons – hey, humility is good! – and not even Gerard Butler’s gloriously hammy villain can make it fun.

Again, this is a movie with giant fire-breathing desert worms and massive booby-trapped dungeons; it has no excuse for being this flat.

Do you disagree with any of the choices on this list, and what movies would you replace them with? Share your thoughts in the comments.