Movies I Found Disappointing
by ultimatenexus | created - 07 Jul 2014 | updated - 07 Nov 2018 | PublicThis is a list of movies I expected to be good, that weren't so good. Sometimes they ARE good, but were ruined by my expectations. The movies on this list aren't necessarily BAD, but for me, they were disappointing nonetheless.
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1. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 924,175 | Gross: $38.40M
Alright. Let me explain with this one because I know I'll get a lot of hate for this. First off: this is not a bad movie. But it just didn't seem all that spectacular. As I grew up, all I heard was "HEY ALL THE CLASSICS ARE GREAT! ALIEN, TERMINATOR, DIRTY HARRY, ETC. WHEN YOU'RE OLDER YOU'LL HAVE A BLAST!" Well, I didn't have a blast, and that's not the movie's fault. It's the fact that people hyped it up so much that I didn't know what to expect when I started to finally watch it. Maybe I was expecting something that would blow Alien out of space, or Dirty Harry out of San Francisco. And considering how at the time I started watching it, I'd become a big Schwarzenegger fan. But frankly, this movie just seemed... dull, I suppose.
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Votes: 1,174,021 | Gross: $204.84M
Now THIS one, I can explain much more clearly, because I KNOW the exact reason why this one disappointed me. In fact, the reason is right in the title. Why call it Judgment Day if Judgment Day doesn't even HAPPEN? I was expecting an end-of-the-world type of action movie, not... a buddy story between John Conner and the Terminator. That, and the story doesn't entirely make a load of sense, and for once the cheesy one-liners don't work in an Arnie action movie no matter how well he delivers them. Why? Because he's an emotionless robot sent from the future to kill the enemy and protect the ally. That's it. Why didn't they just have the Terminator magically obtain the ability to FEEL while they were at it?
3. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes
Votes: 418,528 | Gross: $150.37M
It just felt off. It felt too comical, and didn't seem to take itself that seriously. But at least THIS one delivered the Judgment Day the first sequel promised!
4. Terminator Salvation (2009)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
Director: McG | Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 377,295 | Gross: $125.32M
A potentially decent twist ruined by the trailers. McG directing. No Arnold Schwarzenegger (That CGI doll DOES NOT COUNT). And the first PG-13-rated installment in the series. Yeah, this one was a good sign from the beginning. Not. This was by far the worst in the series, and the only BAD film in the whole series. It was just a cash cow. Now, if they'd played it slightly differently, and sent Kyle Reese back in time using some portal or whatever that the machines had at the factory with the machines sending that CGI doll back after him, then it could've been a bit better. But no. They didn't do that. It was a wasted opportunity and they blew it.
5. Drive Angry (2011)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke
Votes: 103,408 | Gross: $10.71M
I expected an entertaining Nicolas Cage grindhouse-type action movie. What I got was a dull Nicolas Cage grindhouse-type action movie. It was really, really dull. Cage is a hit-or-miss actor; sometimes he's fun to watch, like in Face/Off or The Rock... but other times, he's just dull and uninteresting. And in this movie, he missed the mark by a looooong shot. And it wasn't just him, either. It seemed to take itself too seriously. The back story's stupid, even for something of this genre, and the fact that it was yet another bloated 3D gimmick-reliant crapfest just put another nail in its coffin. William Fichtner was the only good thing about this movie. And stealing stylish sex scenes from superior action films won't save you.
6. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
Votes: 540,718 | Gross: $234.36M
This movie is neither a bad movie nor a good movie. It's in between. Some of it was great; it had some genuinely great ideas, like the cure, and the way Magneto broke Mystique out of prison was cool. But the execution wasn't all that great, and it didn't help when they killed off a key character and (almost) killed off another, along with a few other things I won't mention to avoid spoilers, because it is still worth seeing, if only slightly. One of its biggest problems was that it focused too much on Storm and Wolverine. One thing I always hated about the X-Men franchise is that they focus too much on Wolverine, and while Wolverine is undoubtedly awesome... when did he become the main character of the X-MEN FILMS? They're called X-MEN, not WOLVERINES. This isn't freaking Red Dawn. And this movie, it just didn't work. You don't make a movie about a team and only focus on three of its members.
7. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
Votes: 637,536 | Gross: $336.53M
I like Spider-Man and I love Sam Raimi. But I don't like this movie. It was too scrambled; it focused on doing way too much, and it tried too hard to one-up Spider-Man 2. The whole "emo Peter Parker" thing, I think most fans agree about, is the worst part of the movie. I won't get into further explanations for that because it's been said a billion times already. Also, THREE villains? Sorry, SPOILERS: The idea of making Sandman the actual killer of Uncle Ben was a really stupid idea. People (including me) hate it when movies try to do that. But this movie isn't terrible. I did like how Sandman was more sympathetic than he was in the comics, and Venom was pretty cool. But like X-Men 3: The Last Stand, it just wasn't handled that well.
8. The Enforcer (1976)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
Director: James Fargo | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 49,161 | Gross: $46.20M
My least favourite of the Dirty Harry films, but still not a BAD film overall. I liked Tyne Daly's character. She was strong and resilient in a world where not all men would willingly accept a female into their line of work. It was well done. But once again, this movie felt dull. The villains weren't that convincing or menacing. They were a bunch of wimps compared to Scorpio and Briggs with his vigilante group. And the showdown at Alcatraz wasn't all that exciting, either. Usually people dislike The Dead Pool most, but I liked that one more than this one, so there's that.
9. Insidious (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye
Votes: 339,027 | Gross: $54.01M
I expected a decent horror flick. I got a stupid movie that sells itself out in favour of shock value and the open option of a sequel. The 'twist' broke its own rules, and when movies break rules that they spent over an hour establishing in favour of something like this, it just isn't good.
10. Eragon (2006)
PG | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Family
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realizes he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Director: Stefen Fangmeier | Stars: Ed Speleers, Sienna Guillory, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich
Votes: 130,479 | Gross: $75.03M
Downright disgraceful. Not only did it get everything wrong from the book, but it also made unnecessary changes and the acting was atrocious. I can't ever see myself enjoying this movie. Ever.
11. Punisher: War Zone (2008)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz, Doug Hutchison
Votes: 67,161 | Gross: $8.05M
I was hoping for a cool addition to the Punisher franchise, which is a series I've really enjoyed up to this point. But this movie was stupid. Ray Stevenson was fantastic as the Punisher, maybe even the best Punisher yet, but the rest of the film... ick. I cringed every time Jigsaw and later on his brother appeared on the screen. The gunfights were kind of dull, the soundtrack was lame and sounded like it was copy-pasted from a dozen different direct-to-TV horror films, and the final showdown was laughable.
12. My Bloody Valentine (2009)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he's innocent.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue
Votes: 60,457 | Gross: $51.55M
I didn't even realize this was directed by the same guy who did Drive Angry until a while after. After watching the uncut original film, I popped this one in immediately after with lowered expectations, but even with my low expectations it was still a terrible watch. It lacked the cleverness of the original, the acting was way too serious; the whole film took itself too seriously! And the 3D gimmicks were annoying and unwelcome. And the 'twist' was idiotic.
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When journalist April O'Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the Turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono
Votes: 36,442 | Gross: $42.66M
I loved the first two. I hated this one. First off: the time travel storyline was stupid enough, but when they throw in the 'prophecy' gimmick along with it... GAG. The action scenes were terrible and the movie as a whole was just plain dull.
14. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen
Votes: 491,437 | Gross: $317.10M
Indiana Jones is not Star Wars. So why throw 'interdimensional beings' into the mix? If that wasn't bad enough they had to throw Shia Labeouf, one of the most annoying actors in movies today, in there. And then there's the scene where Indie survives a nuclear explosion in a lead fridge. I like over-the-top movies as much as the next person, but that was WAY too over-the-top, even for an Indiana Jones movie.
15. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 170,663 | Gross: $102.49M
This is another one of those sequels that shouldn't exist. Jet Li is cool as a villain, but that's not enough to make this movie even the least bit interesting. They didn't even have the same actress to play Evelyn! NO. NO. NO. NO. And all those family fights they had throughout the movie were tedious to sit through, as if Alex's douchebaggery is his parents' fault.
16. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
PG-13 | 164 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Eight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman
Votes: 1,827,301 | Gross: $448.14M
A good movie with too many flaws weighing it down. Especially in the second half, where it leaves too much unexplained. Like how Bruce suddenly appeared in Gotham. I was expecting a scene that had an epicly cool sequence where Batman crosses the river whilst struggling to remain out of site of Bane's henchmen. Or an ending that wasn't such a copout. Or a twist that didn't result in Bane once again being a lowly henchman just following orders. Too bad it didn't.
17. Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene
Votes: 408,175 | Gross: $100.01M
This was a decent entry in the series. My problem with it was the last ten or so minutes. It felt like something thrown in by the studio so that the bad guy couldn't get away with it, because "That wouldn't be very satisfying". The way the whole final sequence with the helicopter was done, was just stupid and amateurish, and "Say hello to your brother for me" was both cheesy and unnecessary, and THAT was the perfect opportunity to say the "Yippee-ki-yay" line, instead of afterwards.
18. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Thriller
John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q
Votes: 420,660 | Gross: $134.53M
This was another decent movie. Frankly, the fact that it's PG-13 isn't even my biggest gripe with the movie. It didn't feel like a Die Hard movie. It felt like an action movie about cyber terrorists, with John McClane thrown into it. Not to mention John McClane doesn't seem like John McClane. Maybe it's the altered appearance. Or maybe it's the fact that he's suddenly able to survive even the most impossible situations he's thrown into at the drop of a hat, and he doesn't even survive them the way he used to: with instinct, wit, and quick-thinking. In this movie, he survives by dumb luck alone. It's WAY too unbelievable, and while I like unbelievable movies, it just doesn't work with Die Hard.
19. Under Siege (1992)
R | 103 min | Action, Thriller
An ex-Navy Seal turned cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak
Votes: 95,504 | Gross: $83.36M
Die Hard on a battleship? What's not to love? Steven Seagal, that's what. There's something about this actor I can't stand. I try not to let an actor's out-of-movie life affect how I feel about their movie roles and performances, but with Seagal, it just seems unavoidable. Even at his most humble, he comes off as a condescending jack@ss. His presence alone is enough to make you feel his arrogance and unlikeable personality without him even saying a word. He just needs to make that frown and it's set for the rest of the movie. The movie itself wasn't bad. It was the way Seagal portrayed himself, I suppose, that just undermined the whole thing.
20. Hitman (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper
Votes: 177,754 | Gross: $39.69M
Although I haven't played the games, I think it's at least fair that I expect some action movie mayhem to entertain me for a while. But for some reason I just couldn't get into this movie. Now, I've only seen the uncut version, which is supposedly the superior version, but again, it just didn't deliver for me. It wasn't so much dull as it was just... lame. And the recycled story didn't help, either. I will give it credit, though: Timothy Olyphant was a cool Hitman.
21. Transporter 3 (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Frank Martin is forced to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery.
Director: Olivier Megaton | Stars: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand
Votes: 176,849 | Gross: $31.72M
By far the worst of the trilogy. Speeding up the action scenes. Throwing in a plot that focuses on all the wrong things. Wasting a potentially good idea with bad execution. Throwing in an unappealing 'Bond girl' with too much makeup plastered on her face and an annoying personality to boot. This sequel is all this and more. It just wasn't good or fun to watch.
22. Quantum of Solace (2008)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench
Votes: 470,780 | Gross: $168.37M
An all-around dull sequel focusing too much on a pointless 'threat'. The villain wasn't all that convincing or menacing, and it just undermined the whole thing.
23. Clash of the Titans (2010)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Perseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 292,737 | Gross: $163.21M
This movie was slightly entertaining, but still a total letdown. The final showdown was laughable and the story felt way too rushed. Some of the acting and dialogue was a little bland, too. Not even Liam Neeson or the Kraken could save this movie.
24. The Legend of Zorro (2005)
PG | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Alberto Reyes
Votes: 107,632 | Gross: $46.46M
The plot was underdeveloped, the villains were cheesy, and that KID... the son was obnoxious as hell and undermined what little good there was of the movie. It's unfortunate because it had potential.
25. The 6th Day (2000)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker
Votes: 127,923 | Gross: $34.60M
One of those PG-13 rated movies that tried so hard to be R without being rated R. It was bad on several levels, and even Arnold couldn't make this movie enjoyable to sit through, not even with the "You should clone yourself" line, which in itself was unnecessarily misplaced because he says it to the main villain, who was ALREADY cloning himself. The story wasn't well-done either, despite having a neat idea, but the twist was too predictable and seemed very 'last minute'. It just wasn't a very satisfying Arnie actioner.
26. Home Alone 3 (1997)
PG | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.
Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen
Votes: 127,236 | Gross: $30.88M
Even when I was a kid with a horrible taste in movies I hated this movie. I'm not much of a Culkin fan but he was sorely missed here. The whole movie was a terrible waste of time and I only laughed ONCE, which is not very good for a supposed comedy film. Can't believe Roger Ebert liked this P.O.S. more than the first two.
27. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates
Votes: 179,204 | Gross: $60.13M
This is where the Resident Evil franchise started to go REALLY downhill. Extinction was the beginning but even that one was half decent. But this... the way they handled Alice was bad. She's becoming more and more dull and uninteresting/unlikeable with every sequel, which is WRONG. Main characters are supposed to be more fleshed out with every sequel, and generally become more human. Alice isn't human. She's an emotionless robot that could use emotion lessons from anyone.
28. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer
Votes: 150,131 | Gross: $42.35M
THIS is the ultimate low-point for this franchise. Everything about this movie sucks. It's bland, it tries too hard to be cool, it's got an incoherent mess of a plot, and it tries too hard to one-up itself. I get the fact that I'm not supposed to think much of this franchise (I mean, it's Paul W.S. Anderson), or expect high quality entertainment from it either, but come on... Nothing in this movie made sense, and nothing made me want to watch any further. Thank God it was short because it was a pain to sit through. I mean, I like to think that every director has at least one or two (or three) entertaining movies in his arsenal that doesn't make me want to throw my TV screen out the window. Paul here has his Death Race and first two Resident Evil films (YES I LIKED THEM). Brett Ratner has Rush Hour. Len Wiseman has Underworld. Etc. So why does Paul continue butchering this franchise with some of the poorest-written dialogue I've ever heard and a plot so stupid and nonsensical it makes every Michael Bay film ever made seem Oscar-worthy? Honestly Paul's made some entertaining (stupid, but entertaining) movies, and I think at this point he's just wasting his efforts on this crapfest, which is (so far) his lowest point that I've seen. I'll watch the last one, only because I've seen them all up to this point, but I sure hope Paul at least ends his take on the franchise with a bang that can at least entertain for an hour and a half without being too distracting with its stupidity.
29. Blackjack (1998 TV Movie)
R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin, a U.S Marshal who protects high-profile clients when it comes to a matter of security.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin
Votes: 4,518
No idea where Mr. Woo went wrong with this one. How do you go from a classic like Face/Off to a horribly acted TV movie like... THIS? Definitely the worst I've seen from either Woo or Lundgren.
30. Paycheck (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 113,270 | Gross: $53.79M
Considering this was John Woo's last Hollywood film, it was a sad and quiet way to go.
31. Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Director: Allan A. Goldstein | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Chuck Shamata
Votes: 8,780 | Gross: $1.70M
It was really sad to see the franchise end this way... It started with a big legendary movie bang and ended with a low-budget direct-to-TV whisper.
32. The Toxic Avenger (1984)
R | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion
Votes: 32,154
Usually I like these types of movies but I don't know what went wrong here... it just felt bland, I guess.
33. Smokin' Aces (2006)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Joseph Ruskin
Votes: 152,077 | Gross: $35.66M
With a crazy-sounding premise like this one, one would think this movie would be loads of fun. It wasn't. It was actually kind of boring, and not that fun to watch. People STILL recommend this one to me every once in a while...
34. The Tournament (2009)
R | 95 min | Action, Thriller
A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.
Director: Scott Mann | Stars: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder
Votes: 36,266
Another action movie with a really exciting premise. Assassins gathered into one area to kill each other in a Battle Royale type of situation. That, and the now-rare hard-R MPAC rating sticker on the back of the box, promises a blast of a movie. It was actually pretty underwhelming, unfortunately, and I really wanted to like this one...
35. Troy (2004)
R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover
Votes: 570,488 | Gross: $133.38M
Too 'mainstream' and very underwhelming.
36. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
R | 180 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey
Votes: 1,583,233 | Gross: $116.90M
Overrated. Douchebag gets rich through illegal means, and after a few years of wealth and a questionable sense of happiness, he's brought down by the law. Scorsese's done this plot to death, in much better films such as Goodfellas and Casino.
37. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 330,827 | Gross: $76.27M
Severely disappointing. Everything from the music to most of the acting made me cringe throughout the film. I really wanted to like this film, but maybe I went into it expecting something else.
38. The Predator (2018)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key
Votes: 143,446 | Gross: $51.02M
A major step down from even the mediocre third movie.
39. RED (2010)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 323,926 | Gross: $90.38M
Dull and forgettable.
40. RED 2 (2013)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Retired CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins
Votes: 180,589 | Gross: $53.26M
Dull, forgettable AND stupid.
41. Justice League: Doom (2012 Video)
PG-13 | 75 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
Director: Lauren Montgomery | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Susan Eisenberg, Nathan Fillion
Votes: 36,910
The ending was extremely idiotic. I won't spoil it for anyone curious, but it IS a lazy ending to an otherwise decent film.
42. Justice League: War (2014 Video)
PG-13 | 79 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The world's finest heroes found the Justice League in order to stop an alien invasion of Earth.
Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Sean Astin, Zach Callison, Christopher Gorham, Justin Kirk
Votes: 37,536
Oooohhhhhh my God what a piece of GARBAGE. Flimsy, badly written, all the characters are reinvented to be unlikable dweebs, and Darkseid has been reduced to a speechless, one-dimensional thug.
43. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016 Video)
PG-13 | 78 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Robin is sent to work with the Teen Titans after his volatile behavior botches a Justice League mission. The Titans must then face Trigon after he possesses the League and threatens to conquer the world.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Rosario Dawson, Christopher Gorham, Shemar Moore, Jerry O'Connell
Votes: 23,752
It takes forty minutes to get to the titular fight and even then the main event only lasts for five badly executed minutes.
44. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
R | 229 min | Crime, Drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Votes: 377,719 | Gross: $5.32M
Gorgeously made, with fantastic acting, beautifully intricate set designs, and poignant tragedy, but in the end, something about it was very unsatisfying, which is disappointing since I love Leone's Dollars Trilogy and I'm a fan of De Niro and Woods.
45. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,094 | Gross: $5.32M
Also did nothing for me, despite boasting incredible cinematography, music, sets, and acting. Also found this one hard to get into.
46. Training Day (2001)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger
Votes: 472,888 | Gross: $76.63M
A great movie undermined by a crappy and extremely unconvincing final ten minutes.
47. Mile 22 (2018)
R | 94 min | Action, Thriller
A small team of elite American intelligence officers, part of a top-secret tactical command unit, try to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of Indonesia.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich
Votes: 86,845 | Gross: $36.11M
My expectations were low to begin with. I'd hoped for a stupid action movie that would at least be fun on a guilty pleasure level. It wasn't even that...
48. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 454,956 | Gross: $232.91M
It has aged... poorly. It's not scary. The scares are laughable. The ending is corny and unintentionally hilarious. Truly the "scariest film ever made"...
49. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Votes: 226,725 | Gross: $102.31M
Has some good scenes, but overall did nothing for me that I haven't seen in better movies.
50. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush
Votes: 564,146 | Gross: $241.06M
Lacked the energy, wit, or skill that its predecessors possessed. It all felt tired and uninspired.
51. Octopussy (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn
Votes: 112,986 | Gross: $67.90M
Awful! Roger Moore's worst outing as Bond, and the worst Bond movie in the Eon franchise. The clown and Tarzan scenes anger me so much...
52. A View to a Kill (1985)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
The recovery of a microchip from the body of a fellow British secret agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist scheming to cause massive destruction.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones
Votes: 104,912 | Gross: $50.33M
Almost equally dismal as Octopussy.
53. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy
Votes: 745,160 | Gross: $233.92M
Kind of stupid...
54. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 461,092 | Gross: $155.44M
Painfully average.
55. Spawn (1997)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé | Stars: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle
Votes: 72,286 | Gross: $54.97M
Cheesy and dull, with some of the worst effects I've ever seen in a big-budget film.
56. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,576 | Gross: $61.28M
An alright film but a terrible film adaptation of a great book.
57. Peace Hotel (1995)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired old west killer sets up a hotel for vagrants and wayward souls called Peace Hotel. When a woman with a gang on her tail attempts to hide there the owner of the hotel must revert to his old ways to protect his hotel.
Director: Ka-Fai Wai | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cecilia Yip, Ho Chin, Shun Lau
Votes: 1,287
A Chow Yun-Fat action movie where the action scenes are all impossible to follow.
58. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 281,622 | Gross: $128.08M
Overrated.
59. Jurassic Park III (2001)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 341,038 | Gross: $181.17M
Just awful.
60. Jurassic World (2015)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer
Votes: 679,442 | Gross: $652.27M
A painful mishmash of all the worst parts of the previous three movies shoved into a shinier blender.
61. Free Fire (2016)
R | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy
Votes: 50,714 | Gross: $1.80M
Just dragged... on... and on... and on...
62. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: Tony Jaa, Phetthai Vongkumlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Suchao Pongwilai
Votes: 78,178 | Gross: $4.56M
Dull. Feels like a bad Jackie Chan imitation without the charisma or the charm of Jackie Chan present.
63. Exiled (2006)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Simon Yam
Votes: 9,646 | Gross: $0.05M
Kind of bad, actually...
64. Die Another Day (2002)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens
Votes: 229,162 | Gross: $160.94M
Awful. Brosnan's worst.
65. City Hunter (1993)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.
Director: Jing Wong | Stars: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Joey Wang, Kumiko Goto
Votes: 12,324
My God, this was agonizing to sit through... I hated every second of it.
66. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Votes: 227,889 | Gross: $40.56M
Just... no... a dull, lifeless imitation that lifts many scenes from the original movies and the show, but with none of the impact. It's empty.
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