Hollywood’s 10 worst directors –

10. Zack Cutter

As enthusiastic as I am about Watchmen, it cannot be overlooked that Zack Snyder is essentially an underwhelming film director. Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Army of the Dead, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire and Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver are clear evidence of his inability to treat his audience with disrespect.

9. George Clooney

As good as George Clooney is in front of the camera in such films as Oh Brother, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, The Descendants and Three Kings, he unfortunately disappoints as a director. The Tender Bar, Monuments Men, Suburbicon and Leatherheads are all examples of how Clooney is unable to tell a story in an engaging and personal way, but also struggles to get the most/best out of his actors.

8. McG

Charlie’s Angels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, 3 Days to Kill and Terminator Salvation are all indicative to me of the lack of directorial ability and talent possessed by the once-hot Hollywood darling McG.

7. Michael Bay

The Rock is easy to love. Silly ’90s action, infused with comic timing and exaggerated stereotypes, turned into caricatures. The rest of Michael Bay’s film portfolio is harder to praise. Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, 6 Underground, Ambulance, Transformers: The Last Knight, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 13 Hours…. There’s so much oversaturated, sloppy, aimless crap in this portfolio that it’s almost a little absurd.

6. Brett Ratner

Hercules, like Tower Heist and Movie 43, was pure crap, not to mention Rush Hour 3, X-Men: The Last Stand and After the Sunset. Sure, in the first Rush Hour movie it is possible to find elements that make a successful whole, but it was a lucky hit in a pool of rotten movies directed by Ratner.

5. Eli Roth

If you are the director behind the following films, you are clearly not very good at your job: Borderlands, Thanksgiving, Death Wish, Knock Knock, The Green Inferno, Hostel and Cabin Fever. “Shock value” has always been the trademark of gore king Eli Roth, but between the carnage, large, deep cracks in the dark-red facade have long been noticeable.

4. Tyler Perry

Although extremely savvy entrepreneur Tyler Perry has managed to carve out his own subgenre (films written, produced and directed specifically for African-American audiences) in an already highly competitive film industry, there is no denying that he is essentially a rather poor storyteller. Divorce in the Black, the Madea films, Mea Culpa, House of Payne and Beauty in Black are all clear examples of this.

3. Dennis Dugan

Where to start… Benchwarmers, Jack and Jill, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, Chuck & Larry, Love, Weddings & Other Disasters, National Security are just a few of the truly awful trashy comedies Dennis Dugan has directed, and even if you can dismiss them all as “half-joking nonsense with Adam Sandler at the helm,” it’s impossible to escape the fact that Dugan is incredibly bad as a director.

2. Steven Brill

Hubie Halloween is not a good movie. Neither is The Do-Over, Walk of Shame, The Upside, Little Nicky, Late Night, The Weekend, Drillbit Taylor or Sandy Wexler. Steven Brill directed them all, which says it all.

1. M. Night Shyamalan

Considering how randomly, enthusiastically and passionately I love The Sixth Sense, it feels sad to throw M. Night Shyamalan under the bus like this, but it has to be done – this man is undoubtedly the worst director in Hollywood, and the fact that he continues to make high-budget films that attract attention is a great mystery to me. Among his worst flops, of course, we find such films as Lady in the Water, The Happening, Trap, Old, Glass, After Earth, Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Visit.