2017 has given us a lot of great movies, but boy was it a year for some big clunkers and disappointment at the box office, too.
Audiences were loud and clear this year. You need more than big star power to sell a potential blockbuster. A good script and story helps. This year was filled with unnecessary reboots, whitewashing controversies, and lazy adaptations of popular books and manga.
INSIDER compiled together the movies we had high hopes for but that didn't quite live up to the hype. Keep reading to see the movies that let us down the most this year, ranked from bad to worse.
17. "Alien: Covenant"
Fans were genuinely excited to have director Ridley Scott back in the director's seat and that's why it's a bummer this movie left us wanting more.
We were expecting a movie featuring a lot of aliens attacking humans and were treated to a movie about a sentient, evil android (Michael Fassbender) who decided to become an alien overlord and unleash his children on mankind.
There were some good and surprising moments in "Covenant," but it was not the "Alien" prequel we were expecting.
You can read Business Insider's review here.
16. "Life"
Fox clearly wanted "Life" to be its next "Alien" franchise, but instead we got a thriller about a sentient killing machine that hyped Ryan Reynolds in the trailers only to kill him off in the film's first half hour.
The film also wastes Jake Gyllenhaal’s Oscar-caliber talent as part of a space crew that's being hunted down one by one by a sentient being that looks like an overgrown plant. The most surprising bit was that Gyllenhaal wasn't killed early in the movie, too.
15. "Cars 3"
"Cars 3" may have been a big improvement on the last film in the series, but that's not saying much. ("Cars 2" is widely considered Pixar's worst movie.)
The movie hopes to walk you down memory lane, but it never tugs at your heartstrings the way the first film did. It's not that all of the ingredients aren't there. It's just that Pixar has delivered a similar story so many times now that the emotional beats don't hit with the same punch as they did before. They simply don't feel as genuine.
Nostalgic appearances by Doc Hudson (the late Paul Newman) are ultimately frustrating, because the film fails to outright address the character's mysterious death.
You can read our review here.
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