2022 meant the great return of the movie theater experience. Also the almost total recovery of the industry after the hard blow caused by the health emergency of the pandemic. It was the year of the most anticipated releases after the long waits due to calendar delays. Something that gave the world of cinema a renewed perception of its importance and weight in pop culture. However, there was also room for what we can consider the worst movies of 2022.
Among the extraordinary premieres and great visual celebrations, there is a infamous list of projects that baffled for his failed proposals. From clumsy attempts to revitalize franchises to unsound narrative experiments. 2022 was full of all kinds of stories that disappointed, surprised by their poor quality and disappointed by their poor plot.
The list ranges from new additions to major superhero franchises to seemingly inspired projects that turned out to be resounding flops. We leave you a selection with the seven worst films of 2022 and the reason why they became large-scale disappointments in a market in full recovery.
Is Morbius worst movie of 2022?
Of course, it is one of the worst movies of the year, but it is also the only one that returned to theaters due to an inexplicable decision by Sony. And he did it only to fail again in a resounding and almost painful way. The story of the vampire superhero played by Jared Leto is perhaps one of the most disappointing plot experiments of the year. But, at the same time, it is the irrefutable demonstration that the superhero genre needs to mature in its way of showing new universes and characters.
Especially when the competition gets tougher and fiercer, not only between universes, but also between plots. Morbius it is part of an incomplete and aimless saga. What makes it sYour arrival at the movies is a combination of bad decisions and worse points of view about the scope of its history.
However, the problem with Daniel Espinosa’s film goes beyond belonging to Sony’s weak spiderverse. The script lacks logic, which led to chaotic characters and a messy story without much support. Much worse still, in a delirious journey through a cheap and outdated aesthetic that did not add much to the great premise of a monster in search of redemption. At the end, Morbius it is worthy of its position among the worst films of 2022. A large-scale nonsense that demonstrated the lowest points of the criticized cinematic superhero world.
Morbius is available through Movistar+. You can read our review.
Amsterdamanother disappointment that sneaks into the list of the worst movies of 2022
What could go wrong in the mix of a great director like David O. Russell and a cast full of stars? In this case, everything. the script of Amsterdam makes it one of the worst movies of 2022, which tells an optimistic story from an inexplicable plot chaos. Especially when its director tries to combine drama, humor, romance and suspense, without succeeding at any point in the narrative.
Amsterdam lacks spirit, personality and depth. But, even worse, it has a sense of the epic that becomes ridiculous as the narrative becomes more intricate and complex. Based on a curious historical event, the film combines several settings at once and tries to hold onto various tones. But the result is unpleasant, exhausting and, in the end, so generic as to be smug.
Even his troupe of actors, the ever-competent Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington, seem out of place. Uninspired, most of the time in a struggling attempt to show joy and optimism, the cast seems disoriented. For its final — and cheesy — final scene, the movie makes it clear that it’s incapable of sustaining its premise. A major failure that makes it one of the worst movies of 2022.
Amsterdam It is only available for purchase or rent. You can read our review.
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Another failed attempt to mix various tones and rhythms without achieving anything other than disconcerting. Halfway between a feminist dystopia and an attempt at clever noir satire on the modern hit, Olivia Wilde’s film fails on many levels. But, especially, in his inability to narrate the perception of contemporary good and evil without falling into clichés. Which, without a doubt, includes it fully in the list of the worst movies of 2022.
Despite Florence Pugh’s extraordinary performance, the film falters when trying to tell a story in the background that is never credible. Which, in fact, becomes predictable almost immediately and ends up collapsing into all sorts of failed stereotypes.
The film, which was preceded by a major scandal in Cannes among its cast members, it is as chaotic as its actual setting. Olivia Wilde has real trouble putting together the parts of a narrative that points in an original direction, but she fails to tell more than an incomplete set of ideas. Bland, bumpy in narrative and mostly flat acting, the film was one of the big disappointments of the year.
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Thor: Love and Thunderfor some, another of the worst movies of 2022
Yes, Taika Waititi has a particular sense of humor that is usually the hallmark of his films. But, this time, his need to satirize every last point in the script of Thor’s adventure in search of the Butcher of the Gods failed. Or so some think. Which explains his foray into the list of the worst movies of 2022.
Beyond the change in tone and rhythm for the god of Thunder, what is really worrying about Thor: Love and Thunder It’s his lack of forcefulness. Also that the narration is so irregular as to present two premises that never complete each other.
Despite Chris Hemsworth’s wonderful sense of humor, Waititi’s Thor this time around is an ill-advised combination of jester and clumsy hero. The entire film is unable to sustain the premise about the search for the greater good, while also analyzing a love story with a tragic ending.
The filmmaker did his best to create a broader perception of a narrative about pain, loss, and the search for identity. But not only did it not achieve an effective result, but the entire feature collapsed due to the delusional mix of situations amid mediocre digital effects and occasional jokes. A ridiculous mix that even affected Christian Bale’s extraordinary performance as Gorr, the Butcher of the Gods. Perhaps the only salvageable thing about a project that has earned a place among the worst movies of 2022.
Thor: Love and Thunder is Available on Disney+. You can read our review.
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Fire Eyes is also part of the list
Adapting Stephen King is always a challenge, but Keith Thomas did it especially poorly. Fire Eyes, which has gone down as one of the worst movies of 2022, is a mixture of a superhero origin story, science fiction and a dose of unnecessary melodrama. The result is a poor staging, flat characters and, what is even worse, a simple story that could have been something more.
It is difficult to analyze what happened so that a project based on a solid story ended up being a set of high caliber nonsense. The unclear mixture between narrative directions, between the figure of the monstrous girl as opposed to the heroic one, disappointed.
Whereas in King’s novel, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is a dangerous creature on the verge of disaster, in the film he is a mix of various current clichés. Between the superheroine about to be born and the girl dazzled by her physical capacity, the plot moves from one side to the other in the midst of disorder.
Furthermore, it does so in the midst of a complete lack of structure or logic regarding the quality of power as a dangerous secret. One of the biggest failures of what is already one of the worst films of 2022 and that makes it a bad copy of its much more inspired version from 1984.
Fire Eyes It is only available for purchase or rent. You can read our review.
Actually, Disney’s animated project isn’t exactly a bad movie. But it was an inappropriate combination of all kinds of elements that, together, ended up being excessive. From the large-scale ecological epic, to the analysis of family pain and forgiveness.
Strange world turned out very complex for children and excessively sentimental for adults. So he ended up fighting his lowest points amidst dazzling special effects that didn’t add much to the story. A bad combination that has placed it among the worst films of 2022.
Disney’s animated universe, which is based on a good part of the science fiction movies of the fifties, lacks solidity. At least enough to tell a story that must go from the well-intentioned utopia to the exploration of deep family conflicts. For his last scenes, Strange world it depends excessively on its visual section to sustain the route that it wishes to show through its premise. Which leads her to collapse resoundingly in her final stretch.
Strange world is Available on Disney+. You can read our review.
Disenchanted: Giselle Returnsa missed opportunity for a successful sequel
In 2007, a wonderful Amy Adams made a mockery of fairy tales with the story of a classic princess who discovers the real world. Her Giselle dazzled by her combination of innocence, tenderness and charm.
For her return in 2022, the character is a suburban mom who discovers that everyday life isn’t as magical as she thought. Nothing to do with the longed for “they lived happily” that her native Andalasia promised. The result is a painful and almost naive journey to the core of everything that made her, once, such a lovable character.
But either because the sequel is completely unnecessary or because the story lacks the first’s sneering sense of humor, the movie has flopped and has become one of the worst of 2022. Especially when trying to create a version about magic. mischievous, without achieving it, and charming, without amounting to anything more than a cloying stereotype of goodness. Giselle, more silly than sweet, and Robert, more clumsy than a lovesick husband, were a ridiculous combination. Which made the movie a tedious mess from start to finish.
Disenchanted: Giselle Returns is Available on Disney+. You can read our review.