15 Recent Movies We're Not Surprised Sucked

If there's one thing that nearly always guarantees a flop, it's a troubled production. That is arguably the single most reliable hint of an incoming cinematic failure, and if there's any film from the last few years that went through production hell, it's Chaos Walking.

It was first announced back in 2011, then went through rewrite after rewrite, then once it had finally been filmed, it went through a series of reshoots before finally, finally limping into cinemas in early 2021... when most cinemas were still closed thanks to a certain pandemic.

Oh, and Chaos Walking was such a box office bomb, it resulted in a write-down for Lionsgate. Talk about being unable to catch a break.

To be fair to Chaos Walking, it's not as bad as some other YA novel adaptations and it's probably better than the pre-reshoot product (which was apparently genuinely unreleasable) but the film still, unsurprisingly, isn't very good at all.

The cast is mostly very solid (especially Daisy Ridley and Mads Mikkelsen), Doug Liman does a typically good job as director, and there are some neat ideas, but the plot is an ill-paced mess, Tom Holland is wooden as the lead, the two main characters have no chemistry, and Lionsgate definitely didn't succeed in hiding the film's disastrous production. It feels like there's at least 20 minutes of footage missing here.