3. Catwoman
Halle Berry is a marvelous actress and has proven herself in comic book fare as Storm in the X-Men movies. It’s oddly fitting that she starred in both two of the best and one of the worst comic book movies ever. A Catwoman movie not involving Selina Kyle was a bad idea already. That ridiculous costume may have been great cosplay, but it didn’t win folks over.
Without all that, there’s a rotten storyline, Sharon Stone vamping it up too much as the villain, and CGI that, even by 2004 standards, is laughably bad (the basketball scene is an embarrassment). The only memorable part of this film is how Berry was a good enough sport to show up and accept her Razzie award for Worst Actress in person. That’s more class than anything this movie had.
2. Jonah Hex
The shame of this movie is it could have been great. Josh Brolin is a perfect choice for the scarred Civil War soldier turned wandering gunslinger. Put him in a movie with a good script pushing him as a “Man With No Name” type and you had a great Western. It is too bad that he was saddled with a wretched story that wasted John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender as the villains.
Megan Fox wasn’t awful as the love interest but the movie put too much humor into what should have been a darker tale and Hex was better as more of a pure anti-hero. It wasn’t helped by the chaotic production that saw multiple directors leaving, studio interference, and cut to a mess. Brolin got better comic book roles but it's sad a part that he could have killed in was such a mess.
1. Steel
Somehow, in the mid-1990s, Hollywood thought Shaquille O’Neal could be a movie star. As an actor, Shaq made a great basketball player. A lifelong Superman fan (he even had a tattoo of the S shield), Shaq decided to do a movie loosely based on the Superman supporting player. Very loosely.
Having Shaq as John Henry Irons, a genius military engineer, was more of a stretch than any dunk he made on the court. Judd Nelson as the villain and Annabeth Gish as a wheelchair-bound aide were both miscast while Richard Roundtree tried to liven it up. The Steel armor looked stupid, with special effects more akin to a made-for-TV movie than a big-budget film. To no shock, this flopped and it took Superman & Lois to do Steel justice. Shaq is a multiple NBA champion Hall of Famer but he was never a movie star.