There ’s never been a summertime movie time of year without a few Meleagris gallopavo to go along with all of the blockbusters . The summer of 2024 was no exception . After rebounding from a piano outset in May , the motion-picture show studios had a very undecomposed summer at the box office . But now that the season is coming to an ending , it ’s time to seem back at the five bad summertime 2024 film as well .
Some of our pickaxe barely made an impression during their short arrest in theatre . And the top two choices below only come out within the last two weeks before they immediately take in their respective shoes on this list . In fact , the production line between the two worst moving picture of summertime 2024 is so thin that swop No . 1 and No . 2 would n’t be out of the question . irrespective , we stand up by our rankings of the five unfit summer 2024 flick .
5. Tarot
To be mediocre , Tarotwould have been a terrible motion-picture show at any other time of the year as well . It just find to do out during the first weekend of the summer . It ’s essentially a low - rentFinal Destinationriff , as a grouping of attractive young friends , let in Haley ( Harriet Slater ) and her ex - boyfriend , Grant ( Adain Bradley ) , play around with some cursed Tarot cards . And the next thing you know , each member of the group is being stalked by a figure from the Tarot pack of cards who has come to life .
This film ca n’t seem to find the energy to be either scary or interesting , and its comically inept at being a horror movie . And yet it still made a lot more money than either the top two films on this list could ever manage .
4. Harold and the Purple Crayon
Last year , Zachary Levi headlinedShazam ! Fury of the Gods , one of the bad superhero motion picture of 2023 … and that ’s say something ! Levi ’s not have much lot in 2024 either , thanks toHarold and the Purple Crayon . This adaptation of Crockett Johnson ’s classic children ’s book cast Levi as Harold , as he enters the real globe to look for his father / God Almighty alongside Moose ( Lil Rel Howery ) and Porcupine ( Tanya Reynolds ) .
The problem is that Levi ’s adult male - child routine was already old inFury of the Gods , andHarold and the Purple Crayonlacks the appealingness it involve to work as a veridical story . If Levi stay on this cold streak , then he wo n’t be getting many more leading roles after this .
3. Poolman
Chris Pine , do n’t quit your day line … whatever that is . Pine asterisk in , co - wrote , and directedPoolman , a film that seems like it come into being when the actor see theCoen brothers‘The Big Lebowskiand Roman Polanski’sChinatownbefore decide that he wanted to do that too .
Pine ’s eccentric , Darren Barrenman , is like an environmentally conscious interpretation of Jeff Bridges ’ Dude , who is thrust into an apparent demesne and water malicious gossip in Los Angeles . It ’s the form of story that ’s been say before , but this movie lack the creature to make this remix worthwhile on its own deservingness .
2. Borderlands
Who ’s creditworthy for making such a mess out ofBorderlands ? Is it Eli Roth , the director of record ? Or is itDeadpoolhelmer Tim Miller who came in to head the reshoots ? Either way of life , this is an awful movie that absolutely squanders a outstanding cast include Cate Blanchett , Kevin Hart , and Jamie Lee Curtis . At least Jack Black get a few funny line as Claptrap .
PerhapsBorderlandscould have solve as an radius - rat cinema , as it was in the beginning intended by Roth . As a PG-13 flick , it number off as a seventh - rateGuardians of the Galaxyknock - off , which seems even more inferior when it ran up againstDeadpool & Wolverine . It also does n’t help thatGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3came out just 15 months ago , so it ’s not like the original manikin was n’t fresh in our minds . If this picture had even been half as good as Marvel ’s sequel , then we could have forgive a lot of its flaws . Instead , it ’s an epic box - berth calamity that may lose somewhere around $ 100 million for Lionsgate and the rest of the yield companies behind it .
1. The Crow
Somebody at Sony should send Lionsgate a fruit basket . BetweenBorderlandsandThe Crow , Madame Webis no longer the worst movie of 2024 . In fact , it ’s not even the worst comic - Word of God motion picture of 2024 now thatThe Crowhas desecrated the memory of the 1994 original movie . Remember how impressive the late Brandon Lee looked in his full Crow make-up ? Can you recall how restrain the Crow was when Eric Draven hail into his powers ? There ’s none of that in this pic , and Bill Skarsgård looks like just another juggalo rather of a supernatural retaliator of the Nox .
On paper , casting the star of Stephen King’sItsounds like a fantastic approximation . Skarsgård was terrifying as Pennywise the Dancing Clown , and yet his incarnation of Eric Draven does n’t even come off as the Spirit Halloween cosplay version of Lee ’s Crow . It ’s easily Skarsgård ’s worst revenge epos of the class . on the spur of the moment , Boy kill Worlddoesn’t see so risky by comparison .
As much as we ’re harp on Skarsgård ’s public presentation and appearance , it ’s not all his geological fault . Director Rupert Sanders and the screenwriters own this prodigious misstep that manages to drain the originality out ofThe Crow . Instead of a deadly baddie , the tough guy , Vincent Roeg ( Danny Huston ) , is literally someone who is send mortal to hell . And the movie stops dead in its tracks for an extended romance collage with Eric and Shelley ( FKA Twigs ) as if they ’re wholly oblivious about Roeg targeting her . There ’s really nothing that redeem this movie , and it make a strong compositor’s case thatThe Crowshould be retire again … maybe permanently .
