10 Terrible Movies That Made Great Actors Look Like Failed Amateurs

3. Nicole Kidman - Trespass

Nicole Kidman has been putting in dazzling screen performances since she began her career back in the early '80's, but 2011 is not a year that she will reflect on with fondness or nostalgia. This was not only the year that she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for her role in the Adam Sandler rom-com Just Go With It, but also the year she was dragged down to a startlingly low level alongside Nicolas Cage in the home invasion thriller Trespass. The second film by Joel Schumacher to appear on this list is a considerably meaner effort than his superhero flick Batman & Robin, with the action sequences here taking the form of pain, anguish, and torture. Simplistic and contrived, Trespass leans so heavily on its star leads that its running time has barely ticked past the half hour mark before Cage and Kidman inelegantly collapse along with the movie itself. For Cage this is nothing new - the way he embraced the ludicrous The Wicker Man was almost admirable - but it's strange and unpleasant to see Kidman in such an unappealing screenplay as Trespass. Critically panned and a big box-office flop, Trespass' sole claim to fame is how it remains one of the few films ever to have made Nicole Kidman look bad. And that is just not cool.