15 Movies That Made 2017 The Dumbest Year Ever

8. Unforgettable

There are many surprising things about this Katherine Heigl-starring Lifetime-esque thriller. Firstly, it actually got a major theatrical release, it somehow cost more than $5 million to make ($12 million, actually), and someone apparently had serious dirt on Rosario Dawson to convince her to star in something this woefully low-rent.

Let's get the big joke out of the way first: Unforgettable is anything but. What should've been a straight-to-Netflix thriller somehow clambered its way into cinemas and served up one of the year's most flatly shot and weirdly boring films. Some say that if you can avoid falling asleep, you can actually feel your brain cells committing suicide while watching this film.

Katherine Heigl, whose career has been circling the drain for a while now, is at least well-cast as the hatchet-faced psychopath, even if she plays the role disappointingly straight and refuses to go full ham. Dawson's performance is meanwhile inexplicable by its mere presence alone.

The ending, which optimistically teases a sequel, is meanwhile one of the most hilarious things shown in cinemas all year, so there's that.