10 Movies From 2018 That Were Completely Pointless
4. The Hurricane Heist
'This year's Geostorm' is hardly the kind of backhanded praise anybody would want lavished on their movie, but at least The Hurricane Heist blew in and snatched the crown early when it briefly hit theaters in March.
Director Rob Cohen has been making terrible genre movies for decades now, so at least he's working in his wheelhouse. The Hurricane Heist will no doubt be enjoyed by fans of 'so bad its good cinema', but its hard to believe that's what anybody involved was aiming for.
Boasting effects that would have been dated 20 years ago and performances so wooden that the actors would have been better off nailing themselves to windows to prevent structural damage from the titular disaster, the movie does at least provide some unintentional hilarity for those looking for a laugh.
In a case of life imitating art, The Hurricane Heist caused catastrophic damage in a short space of time, but only to the studio's finances. Debuting at the domestic box office in ninth place and gone within a week, the movie failed to even recoup half of the $35m budget globally and left anybody that had paid to see it wondering just how such a forgettable movie even managed to exist in the first place.