20 Worst Films Of 2012

18. Alex Cross

One of the most dispiriting things about this brainless ode to guns and shouting is that Matthew Fox underwent a brutal exercise and diet program to shed a huge amount of weight for the role. Pity his efforts were totally and utterly wasted with this tonally confused attempt to follow up the 1997 film "Kiss the Girls" starring Morgan Freeman. Where that film was intriguing and committed in it's character development, this film focuses more on standard set-pieces and shoot-outs, wasting the talent of it's stars and the expense of the movie. The dialogue is almost laughably clunky, with a strangely awkward dramatic piece holed up in the middle of the mindless violence and several poorly chosen shots littering the film, it feels like a film made a lot of years ago, and is a real abasement of it's source material.

17. Wrath Of The Titans

Wrath of the Titans starring Sam Worthington Did this really have to be made? What about Clash Of The Titans suggested a need for a sequel? Oh right, box office appeal. Admittedly, the CGI and set-pieces are a pleasing step up from it's Predecessor, but that's once again as far as the entertainment goes in this film, with a chaotic and often incoherent plot that fails to grip the audience partly due to some wooden and surprisingly uncharismatic performances from the likes of Sam Worthington. Utterly mind-numbing to watch by the end and rather empty in anything except action, this is one to miss.
 
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