Sometimes good actors star in terrible movies - even the ones who win Oscars.
Jennifer Lawrence starred in Mother!, Robert De Niro starred in The War with Grandpa and Dame Judi Dench was in Cats.
Now, two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank has graced a real dud - Fatale.
The new film follows successful sports management businessman Derrick (Michael Ealy, The Good Wife), who has a one-night-stand with a charming and enigmatic woman while at a bachelor party in Las Vegas.
It's only once he is back home with his wife, and attacked by a home invader in the night, that his betrayal threatens to come to life.
Turns out that the woman he slept with in Vegas was actually an LA police detective, Val Quinlan (Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby), and she's investigating the home invasion.
Fatale is very much in the vein of Fatal Attraction or The Boy Next Door, but it's not as good as the former and not as unintentionally hilarious as the latter.
Making Swank's character a detective gives her stalking/obsessive actions a more menacing edge, but it's also not really the right climate for movie police to be flouting the rules.
Side plots of Derrick's wife's alleged infidelity, his cousin's gang ties and Val's councilman ex-husband's corruption inquiry are all messy.
The groundwork is barely laid for any of them, and when they come to a head, it's really just a let down.
As far as crazy, unhinged movie exes go, Detective Val is pretty banal.
Yes, she's got her police authority behind her and a devastating piece of backstory, but she's also not terrifying in the slightest.
Glenn Close has said that her portrayal of Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction has kept men from cheating on their wives - the same could most definitely not be said of Val.
And while most cheaty husbands don't come across particularly sympathetic in these types of movies, Derrick is really pathetic and unlikeable.
Even supporting actors who are great on TV (Mike Colter from Luke Cage, Danny Pino from Cold Case) cannot inject any life into this movie.
And the big climactic ending? Equally terrible.