‘Speed Racer’ – Emile Hirsch
After the massive success of The Matrix, the Wachowskis tried and tried again to produce idiosyncratic works of big-budget genre fare for the screen. And they, unfortunately, tended to fail. One of their most noble experiments came in Speed Racer, a truly bonkers, singular adaptation of the famous anime. Its star, Emile Hirsch, never quite bounced back from the film’s fall.