Julia Roberts: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

3. Captain Kate Hazeltine - Valentine's Day (2010)

In the grand scheme of casting attrocities, the decision to have Roberts play a serving army officer was probably not the smartest move in movie history, but then there probably weren't many people on either the cast or the crew who emerged with much credit after Valentine's Day hit cinemas and made an abominable $110,476,776 at the box office. The entire premise behind the film seems to have just been to throw lots of money at lots of film stars - some established, some upcoming (and all probably now ashamed a little bit) - and got them to just be in a film. Hang the story, forget acting or strong writing - let's just have people in a film because their names will draw people to the cinema (and if that's not good enough a pull, we'll call it something manipulative and release it when lazy, unimaginative people need something to do for Valentine's Day.) Roberts is pretty much a bored zombie, not even given a romantic story, whose emotionally manipulative arc (awwwww, it's her son, not her boyfriend!) is the crowning horror of the sub-Love Actually hallmark-like slush-fest.