10 Terrible Movies Everyone Goes Way Too Easy On

5. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time

Now Angelina Jolie has boosted Maleficent to some box office success the Disney executives can rest somewhat easy. Their big, non-Marvel/Pixar blockbuster of the year hasn't bombed terribly. After the frankly embarrassing Prince Of Persia, the marketing bundle of John Carter, the money-haemorrhaging of The Lone Ranger, their annual tradition of a high-profile summer flop seems to be broken.

And while the latter two got more of a grubbing than they deserved (both would have been received much better if it wasn't for the trade press tearing them to shreds pre-release), nobody should have been upset to see Prince Of Persia flop. Some would dismiss the film's many faults by simply acknowledging it was based on a video game, but that really shouldn't give it a free pass.

Taking only broad strokes from the hit game series, the inspiration is a scattershot mix of various genre clichés all filtered to taste as much like producer Jerry Bruckheimer's previous success from an unexpected source: Pirates Of The Caribbean. And there's the issue. It's cynical, franchise-wanting movie-making, replete with lacklustre (read: open ended) conclusion and colon in the title ready for future instalments.

You could argue it's all a bit of fun, but when the finale has the fate of the entire world in the balance that's hard to take. An emblem of everything wrong with modern blockbuster cinema. Speaking of which...