15 Most Over-Rated Movies Of The 21st Century

Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Trilogy started off promisingly enough with the charming, warm-hearted and undeniably camp Strictly Ballroom and progressing onto to his frenetically paced and sumptuously styled modernisation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but his third instalment Moulin Rouge! – set in turn-of-the-century Paris and focusing on another pair of star-crossed lovers, courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman) and writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) – took the trilogy’s signature theatrics and over-the-topness to intolerable levels.

Garishly coloured, hyperactively edited and set to a cacophonous soundtrack that rips from all corners of 21st century musical output, from Nirvana to Madonna, some see Moulin Rouge! as a pop culture masterpiece but it’s the kind of nausea-inducing film – both in pace and sickly sweet plot – that has you reaching for the sick bucket.