8 Most God-Awful Movie Superheroes Not Based On Existing Material

7. Lightspeed - Lightspeed (2006)

Lightspeed 2006 The posters for Lightspeed made a point of telling you that Stan Lee (yep - the Stan Lee) had something to do with this awful excuse for a superhero movie, but the only explanation for his "involvement" here must have come as the final result of a long, drawn-out hostage situation. Either that, or... no, that had to be it: there's no other way to justify his association. Released in 2006 to the worst reviews this side of Movie 43, Lightspeed tells the story of one Daniel Leight, who - through a series of horribly contrived events - winds up with the power of... speed. If you've been searching for a superhero movie that looks as though it was directed on a budget of about $15 and is crammed with performances so bad that your perceptions of what "bad acting" looks like are shattered entirely, well... your search is up. Lightspeed is just about the most naff superhero ever conceived, something that isn't helped by the fact that his costume comes across as a joke without a punchline. I'm still totally clueless as to what Stan Lee really had to do with this movie. Going by his executive producers' credit, he donated the $15.
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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.