15 Biggest Guilty Pleasure Movies Of 2018

7. Hunter Killer

It's been too damn long since Hollywood served up a big-budget submarine thriller, and while Hunter Killer isn't big-budget or particularly thrilling, it veers so close to unintentional parody it almost becomes awesome again.

Gerard Butler takes a sterner-than-usual approach to his performance here, but he's genuinely quite good as the earnest submarine commander trying to prevent World War III.

Elsewhere you've got a half-asleep Gary Oldman playing a stuffed-shirt Admiral, Common inexplicably cast as a Rear Admiral, the late, great Michael Nyqvist as a Russian sub commander and Toby Stephens as a Navy Seal trapped in a subplot ripped straight from a Call of Duty game.

There's as little filmmaking craft here as you'd expect from an unknown director who somehow convinced Summit Entertainment to give him $40 million, but Butler's solid performance and the film's bizarre yet well-meaning political inflections make Hunter Killer enjoyable mulch.

"Best" Moment: In the climax, the Good Russians obliterate the missiles fired at the American heroes' submarine by the Bad Russians, in what might be cinema's most absurdly simplistic "Can't we all get along?" political commentary.

In these trying times, especially with American-Russian relations being what they are, there's something weirdly comforting about a film that just wants to bring us all together, even if it's pure fantasy. We're all humans after all, right?