Worst Films 2020

2020 was a trash year, and had plenty of terrible films to match. 

 05. Guns Akimbo - What if we cast the kid from Harry Potter to play a computer nerd who finds himself inexplicably thrust into a violent online game turned real life battle in which he INEXPLICABLY has guns attached to his hands? Yes, this sounds like a fake movie. No, not once do they play Twenty One Pilots "Guns for Hands". I feel like maybe this could have been a really fun bad movie, if everyone involved realized they were making a bad movie. But there is a certain air of, "Oh, we are making a great movie here" vibes, which makes it a bad movie that isn't even fun. 

 04. The Rhythm Section - What if Serena from Gossip Girl had a really bad British accent and randomly decided to stop using heroin and train to be an assassin to avenge the death of her family in a plane crash that wasn't an accident because (enter convoluted plot here)? On the plus side, there is a really cool car chase scene near the end. On the bad side, literally everything else. 

 03. The Turning - What if we ripped off one of the greatest ghost stories ever written and cast that kid from Stranger Things in it? In, what I guess is supposed to be an homage to The Turn of the Screw, I'm way too good for this movie Mackenzie Davis plays a woman who becomes a live in governess to two children - one precocious and adorable and one freshly kicked out of boarding school (Finn Wolfhard, the aforementioned Stranger Things kid). Of course, lots of things that are supposed to be creepy happen, but none of them are really creepy at all. And, also, the end is just terrible. 

 02. Fantasy Island - What if we took a TV show no one under the age of 40 remembers but markets it as a horror movie for millennials? A group of contest winners go to a, ahem, fantasy island, where they are promised their greatest dreams can come true. Although, spoiler alert, the dreams become nightmares real quick. Lucy Hale is the biggest star in this movie, so that has to tell you something. On the plus side - Maggie Q wears a killer casual dress that I still think about on the regular. 

 01. Birds of Prey - What if we absolutely waste the talent of Margot Robbie by making this character completely annoying and unlikable? Harley Quinn was one of the better things about the abysmal Suicide Squad, a movie that was bad, but made money, so of course there has to be sequels and spin offs. Harley Quinn in a solo movie? Not so great. It's all style and no substance, with a quality that feels stitched together instead of cohesive. Sure, some of the individual scenes are kind of cool, but you can't make a good movie out of that. It felt very American Horror Story to me, in the sense that they always start off with one idea and then sort of throw anything and everything they can think of into a season until it's all just too much and none of it makes sense and it becomes a huge, annoying mess in the end.