In 1987, Ishtar was an adventure-comedy film based in Morocco was one of the most expensive box-office flops of all time. Ebert wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times that “Ishtar is a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy” and Siskel called it “shockingly dull” and “dim-witted.” The movie director never worked again in the industry.
