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In 2005, Roger Ebert<\/a> saw a film that was so bad he predicted that every one of his critical peers would dismiss it. He was right. Ebert, who passed away in 2013<\/a>, was often generous with his reviews, like when he gave Samuel L. Jackson’s mediocre “Lakeview Terrace” a perfect score<\/a>. He also loved Al Pacino’s 2005 sports movie “Two for the Money,”<\/a> which otherwise received mixed reviews. That same year, however, he was aligned with every other critic who found “London” to be almost unwatchable, penning one of the harshest reviews he’d ever produced.<\/p>\n The film was written and directed by Hunter Richards, who, perhaps unsurprisingly, given the critical response to “London,” hasn’t really done all that much since. He did write and direct a short called “Awake” in 2010 and wrote a 2014 feature called “Free the Nipple” which currently bears a disappointing 18% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. But even that isn’t quite as bad as “London,” which only managed a 14% Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> score and was excoriated by critics (who struggled to find a single likable thing about Richards’ 2005 romantic drama).<\/p>\n “London” stars Chris Evans as a lovesick New Yorker who crashes his ex-girlfriend’s farewell party in an attempt to make amends before she departs for California. Instead of rekindling the pair’s romance, however, he spends most of the time in the bathroom with Jason Statham … and if that sounds like a bit of a drag, it is. One look at the reviews will tell you as much, but if the RT score isn’t enough to convince you, take it from Ebert, who at one point referred to the film merely as “dreck.”<\/p>\n
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Samuel Goldwyn Films<\/p>\n In 2014, Chris Evans made his directorial debut with “Before We Go,” a sentimental romantic drama that was a lot better than critics at the time gave it credit for. Evans and his co-lead Alice Eve were both likable and had a lot of chemistry, and the film really immersed you in its late-night New York setting. It also shared a few things in common with “London,” with Evans playing a forlorn New Yorker wounded in love and pining after his ex, who he eventually confronts at a party. Unlike “London,” however, “Before We Go” was sort of charming and memorable.<\/p>\n In the 2005 film, Evans’ Syd discovers his ex-girlfriend, London (Jessica Biel), is leaving New York for California with her new boyfriend. But rather than handling the news in a normal way, Syd trashes his apartment and decides to crash London’s going away party. Making matters worse, he brings along Jason Statham’s Bateman, a banker who’s also Syd’s cocaine supplier. That particular cocktail of bad decisions and bad people naturally leads to a train wreck of a night, with Syd and Bateman spending most of their time in a bathroom and working their way through what looks like a lethal mix of coke and tequila, all the while discussing every subject imaginable.<\/p>\n
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