10 Recent Movies That Let You Down INSTANTLY
5. Back in Action
Though few were expecting Netflix's Back in Action to be amazing, it was nevertheless sold off the dual appeal of Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx - the former taking her first major movie role in over a decade, and the latter returning to screens after suffering a stroke in 2023.
It was easy to appreciate Diaz and Foxx being a well-matched pair for a zany action-comedy, and yet, it became abundantly clear just how sauceless this entire endeavour was from its initial action sequence.
Even if you can overlook how thunderously generic the opening spy set-piece is, it doesn't exactly thrive on the chemistry between Diaz and Foxx, which is passable but hardly sizzling.
But things get messy when Diaz and Foxx's CIA operative characters end up betrayed and left onboard a crashing plane, from which they narrowly escape by parachuting out.
Yet the embarrassingly low-rent CGI is absolutely inexcusable for a film with a gross budget of $207.2 million (!) - the atrocious green screen work and rudimentary animation of the plane crashing into a mountain would've been laughed off the big screen 20 years ago.
Unsurprisingly the rest of Back in Action follows the same lackluster lead.