These films show that, given a dedicated creative team and enough on-screen talent, the most unappealing of premises can deliver a great movie.
Some unexpectedly great films have come from premises that, on paper, shouldn’t work at all. Likewise, there are plenty of bad movies that spawned from great concepts. It just goes to show that, in filmmaking, execution is everything. While Hollywood champions the notion of an “elevator pitch” which can sell a film based on its one-sentence synopsis, it’s sometimes necessary to skirt around this requirement.
9 Pacific Rim The premise for Pacific Rim reads like the fantasies of an eight-year-old: in the near future, when humanity is faced with a scourge of skyscraper-sized monsters, their only recourse is to build piloted giant robots to pit against the creatures in a fistfight. It’s an absurd premise that the plot doesn’t waste much time justifying.
6 Cold Pursuit Fans of the Norwegian action thriller In Order of Disappearance, which sees a snowplow driver seek revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son, were likely nervous to learn that the film would be receiving an American remake. The American version refitted the film with a less clever title, Cold Pursuit, and cast Liam Neeson in B-movie action star mode to play the title role. Nevertheless, the remake is surprisingly strong.
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