It is difficult to find a bad movie in the filmography Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor chooses projects that tend to please critics and audiences, and if they are not effective on both sides, the actor, whether due to his talent or his charisma, always finds a way to succeed.
In this brief selection of films, we will not take into account those films in which Leo is very secondary. This is to explain, for example, why there is no Creatures 3 and Toxic.
While these three films weren’t terribly bad, they generated enough controversy to question whether DiCaprio was too much for them… or if the star just wasn’t up to par.
Danny Boyle’s film is one of the most controversial films of his career. On Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregation site par excellence, it has 123 reviews and a score of 21 percent out of 100. On Filmaffinity it averages 5.6 out of 10 with over 40,000 voters.
The 2000 film stars DiCaprio as Richard, a traveler who embarks on an adventure in search of a paradise island.
The critic at the time said: “It’s not a terrible movie. It’s simply baseless.” Elvis Mitchell Subordinate New York Times. In Spain they were more cruel. Fernando Moralesfrom El País, released: “Boyle has tried, in vain, to think of the search for evasion and hypocrisy in an ideal society. Too much DiCaprio and too little quality.”
The icing on the cake was Leo’s nomination for the Razzie Awards, those awards that year after year “recognize” the worst in Hollywood. Fortunately for DiCaprio, The actor lost to John Travolta.
Without plum It’s a cinematic legend in which DiCaprio and his gang of friends, the Pussy Posse, star. Among them, it is worth remembering, Spider-Man Tobey Maguire.
The plot is simple. The film’s events revolve around a group of young men who meet every Saturday at their favorite place, Don’s Bloom, and compete to see who can go with a different woman each week.
DiCaprio, Maguire and company recorded it over six days in the summer of 1995 and part of 1996. The two, Kevin Connolly, Scott Bloom, Amber Benson, Heather McComb, Meadow Sisto, and Jenny Lewis, performed the song. It was directed by R.D. Robb and written by several others: Robb, Bethany Ashton Wolfe, Todd Beckman, David Stoutman, and Dale Wheatley.
The New York Post collected information about this mysterious project and reported that one of the film’s producers, Dale WhitleyHe knew that DiCaprio had become “apprehensive” when he discovered that what was intended to be a short film had been made into an independent film.
The film was banned in the United States after Leo and Toby filed a lawsuit against the creators in 1998.. Ignoring the demand for justice, Wheatley posted the film online in 2014. It lasted 16 months until they took it down.
The producer described the Pussy Posse as a “very scary gang of thugs with their own power and influence”. Wheatley understood that the lawsuit was not about the film’s length or subject matter, but rather that Maguire would have felt overshadowed by Leo.
A spokesperson for DiCaprio who reached out to the New York Post claimed that Wheatley’s comments were “decades-old lies” fabricated “in an attempt to gain publicity and illegal financial gain.”
Another thing that didn’t leave critics or audiences unanimously satisfied was… Fire and shadowBy Agnieszka Holland. Liu plays the role of the poet Arthur Rimbaud in a film that tells the story of the relationship between him and his colleague Paul Verlaine.
The Rotten Tomatoes score is food for thought. It received a score of 24% out of 100, although this time there were fewer critics than The Beach (only 16). On Filmaffinity it has a decent 5.8.
Fernando Moralesfrom El País, highlighted only the protagonist’s performance: “Entertaining but wasted. The score is more than erratic and arrogant. Best, Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Liu received countless praise for his performance, but there were also those who criticized him for playing a role similar to the one he played in Diary of a Rebel (Basketball diaries).
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