Ranking March 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best
14. Grimsby
RottenTomatoes Score: 38% (4.7/10)
Box Office: The $35 million spy comedy opened to less than half of what analysts projected, resulting in one of the worst wide openings in American box office history. International releases did save it a little though, helping it claw back $25 million worldwide. It's still a bomb, but not quite as catastrophic as the U.S. reports would have you believe.
Verdict: Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy is for sure his most uneven effort to date, an unapologetically crass and crude caper that admirably pushes the boundaries of taste and decency, but also opts for the lazy, easy gag far too often.
Mark Strong is great fun here as the straight man opposite Cohen, and the film's go-for-broke attitude is enjoyable to a point, but it lacks the firm satirical bite of Cohen's better efforts and Louis Letterier's hyperactive direction does the action no favours at all. Not awful by any means, just not particularly good either.