20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

10. Misconduct

Worst Fims Of 2016
Lionsgate

There was a time when the presence of Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino on the same bill would be cause for pretty serious celebration. That time is not 2016, and the bill certainly isn't Misconduct, whose main cast is completed by Josh Duhamel, who is asked to do the majority of the acting while his starry fellows pick up grossly inflated pay-checks.

He's inevitably not up to the requirements, since he's Josh Duhamel, and he's lumbered with a quite astonishingly stupid story, populated with ridiculous contrivances. Quite how it cost $11m is anyone's guess, but there's a good chance a significant portion of it went to getting Pacino and Hopkins in.

It's just a shame they couldn't spring to pay them enough to actually look bothered. In contrast to the film's ever so obvious attempts to be taken seriously (with a forced aesthetic that does it no service), they sleepwalk and make it even more obvious that they don't belong here.

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