Dan Aykroyd: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

5. Max Beasly - Unconditional Love (2003)

It's always a fairly damning indication of a film's quality when the studio behind it postpone it for almost four years then premiere it on TV and dump its release in direct-to-DVD land. Watching Unconditional Love, it's entirely justified that New Line Cinema did it, though.

In the "comic murder mystery", Aykroyd plays a deeply uninteresting character - the husband of Kathy Bates who leaves her (no doubt partly because of her ridiculous obsession with the least believable Tom Jones clone ever in Jonathan Pryce). That - and the murder of Pryce's pop star - send her on a journey of renewed self-discovery.

There are some fun ideas, but the execution is hopeless and muddled and you're left wondering when there's going to be some jokes. Particularly when it comes to Aykroyd, who is painfully wasted and could have been replaced with any sad-sack comedian of any quality. That's not the kind of job he should have been taking even in 2003.