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Will Smith as Satan (or at least I think it was Satan, who the fuck knows.)

I feel like the only reason anyone's talked about the last three Will Smith movies is because they're so bad in such weird ways that people feel compelled to lay it on. I don't think I'll ever see Seven Pounds because nothing could ever top my reaction to hearing how it ended. It may be a secret masterpiece, but I'm okay not knowing for sure.

Is the ending the opposite of his role here? That said his cameo in Anchorman 2 was some good minor fun.

Smith could have been amazing in Winter's Tale for all I know, but it's such an odd and distracting piece of casting I would never have noticed. First you spend most of his initial scene trying to figure out "is that really Will Smith?" and then once you accept it you can't get past the fact someone decided Will Smith was the perfect choice to play this character (who I'm still pretty sure is Satan.) And that's just one of the examples as to how inept Goldsman is as a director, how unsubtle he is. I mean, why oh why would you cast Smith, who, despite some dismal films in the past few years, is still a big star unless you're just trying to get your audience to go "oh look! Will Smith!" You could here a few "wait, is that...?" comments from the audience, and the whole scene comes off cartoonish because of it, with Russell Crowe's comic "they're all after me Lucky Charms" accent not helping matters. I actually think it's good of Smith to be willing to do cameos after I figured his ego wouldn't let him do such a thing, making this two in a row after Anchor Man 2 (which was actually a more suitable cameo) but it's so fucking bizarre.