1. Mark Hunter - Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
Have you ever heard of the concept of hell being a tiny room with a small TV that plays the same movie over and over again? This movie, a rehashing of a 1956 noir, can be summed up with one word: awful. I know that is being extremely harsh, but the wooden dialogue, ridiculous story, and interaction between characters was so off kilter watching this movie was about as enjoyable as having a KA-BAR slowly shoved into your eyeballs. After a considerably shaky start things begin to calm down and it becomes a throbbing version of bearable. I almost saw why it made it to theaters and not straight to DVD and then the twist came at the end and the gagging returned. This is all very harsh, I know, I'm sorry, but Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is comparable to The Room except that the qualities that make it bad are not funny. In the middle of all the badness is strangely enough, Michael Douglas. Witness Exhibit B, proving that Douglas is taking roles he would have shot down a decade ago. While he does his best playing the crooked Mark Hunter, the role is really way too thin for him. Without Douglas, this film would have certainly never reached theaters. Surely after all these years he still deserves better roles than this and hopefully will get the chance to deliver them to us. Douglas is an iconic actor as well as producer. I would rather see him go out gracefully and retire from acting than play a bunch more Mark Hunters before he goes.