10 Terrible Movies That Wasted Amazing Casts

The 2014 wartime comedy-drama is living proof that even a stellar ensemble cast and an intriguing historic basis cannot make a film alone. And in the case of The Monuments Men it’s actually one of the cast members that’s at least partially to blame for its failure – George Clooney, who takes on both directorial duties and a starring role.

Perhaps Clooney should have learned his lesson by now. His other vanity projects, including the Oscar nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and the box office bomb that was Leatherheads, have been somewhat hit-and-miss affairs and The Monuments Men – loosely based on historical fact and focusing on a motley crew of art historians and curators tasked with retrieving priceless works looted by Nazis during World War II – is one of those misfires.

Critics have knocked the film’s lack of pace, off-kilter direction and dearth of fully fleshed-out characters, making you wonder whether it might have been a better film had George Clooney managed to stay solely behind the camera and given directing it his full attention instead.