10 Terrible Movies That Wasted Amazing Casts

What do you do when you’ve managed to convince an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton with the promise of a film tackling racism and intolerance in Los Angeles?

Well, if you’re director Paul Haggis you reward them with a patronising parable crammed with more racial stereotypes than you can shake a stick at with little in the way of intelligent commentary and a heavy-handed message with all the subtlety of a brick intended to clunk viewers over the head with the startling idea that ‘racism is bad, you guys’.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the Academy Awards’ disconnect with real issues of race, the film went on to scoop three Oscars including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay back in 2006, proving that there’s no accounting for taste even amongst supposed industry professionals.

If ever there was a film made for white liberals by white liberals (and the kind of white liberals prone to say ‘of course I’m not racist, I have loads of black friends’), it’s Crash.