10 Overrated Filmmakers Who Get Way Too Much Credit

1. Spike Lee

It wasn't until Spike Lee's third film, Do the Right Thing, that people really sat up and listened, yet again, each home run (Malcolm X, He Got Game, 25th Hour and Inside Man) is peppered between a couple of less-successful films which underscore how thoroughly inconsistent the man is.

Is he a powerful filmmaker at the best of times? Absolutely, but he's also had his reputation blown wildly out of proportion simply because he's an "issues" director with a political pointedness to his work.

While much of Lee's oeuvre manages to speak powerfully about the toxicity of racism, there's likely the tendency for those who sympathise overtly with his agenda to take it easy on his lesser films, which they absolutely should not. Lee makes a great film roughly once every 5-6 years, yet the way his fanbase goes on about him, you'd think he was churning them out with the industrious work ethic of Christopher Nolan.

Which directors do you find the most overrated? Disagree with my assessments? Let us know in the comments below.