20 Worst Movies Of 2016

Poor Josh Duhamel: not content with appearing as a Transformers supporting character stooge, he also made the bland, boring Misconduct with two actors who he would normally probably count as his heroes. And then he also made Spaceman, the biopic of rebellious major league baseball pitcher Bill Lee. To be fair to him, like in Misconduct, he's the best thing about the film: offering a reasonably likeable performance that is swallowed whole by the vacuum of entertainment values.

You can sort of see why they thought this would be a good idea: Brett Ratner famously made a documentary about Lee that was critically adored and renewed interest in him. Why it took more than 10 years to capitalise on that remains to be seen, but they presumably wrote a script for one and unwrote it for the next nine.

It's effectively a stoner, loser baseball movie pitched as your usual work-a-day uplifting sports biopic, but it can never deliver on the happy ending it seems intent on pretending is coming, and none of the sub-plots added to try and bring in some added depth are even remotely interesting.