10 Movies You Can Never Finish

3. The Postman

If you thought that the spectacular failure of Kevin Costner's 1995 star vehicle Waterworld would've reigned in his artistic hubris a tad, think again.

Costner, who effectively took control of Waterworld away from director Kevin Reynolds, followed it up with 1997's post-apocalyptic adventure film The Postman, which ultimately turned out to be a similarly grandiose-yet-undercooked effort.

While the majority of the movies on this list were well-received by critics, The Postman, which cost a ludicrous $80 million, was rubbished as a pretentious, cornball misfire for Costner.

But The Postman's biggest hurdle to success is unquestionably its agonising 177-minute runtime, distending the ridiculous farce of Kevin Costner attempting to rebuild society out to genuinely soul-sapping ends.

If Hideo Kojima's recent video game hit Death Stranding were a really, really boring and overly sincere movie, it'd surely be The Postman. Of Costner's big three epics, this is unquestionably the most punishing to watch.