10 Great Casts Who Wasted Their Talent On Bad Movies

2) The Monuments Men

Hm… The Monuments Men is the third film on this list to star George Clooney… am I sensing a pattern here?

Clooney, as fantastic of an actor as he is, doesn’t always pick the best projects. He’s almost always great in them, but every now and again he finds a standout role in a film that just doesn’t work. This year’s The Monuments Men, which he also directed, is one of those films.

The Monuments Men very well could, and should, have been Ocean’s Eleven set during World War II. The film stars Clooney, his Ocean’s co-star Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Cate Blanchett as an unlikely platoon of sent into German-occupied countries to retrieve and protect priceless works of art in order to avoid the destruction of 1,000 years worth of Jewish culture.

The true-life story is another that’s perhaps too big for the big screen, and Clooney never effectively portrays the depth and emotion of the events effectively. The Monuments Men is frustratingly flat, slow paced, and well… very, very boring.